adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a tropological manner (in either sense of the adj.).
1549. Chaloner, Erasm. Praise Folly, N iv b. Moralisyng the same bothe Allegorically, Tropologically, and Anegogically.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. § 32. 512. This was the General opinion concerning the Greekish Fables, that some of them were Physically, and some Tropologically Allegorical.
1730. Waterland, Script. Vind., Pref. 18. The Law about the Sabbath may be supposed tropologically to denote the Rest of the Soul and its Cessation from Sin.
1888. Schaff, Hist. Chr. Ch., VI. I. xxxii. 139. Jerusalem means allegorically the good, tropologically virtue, anagogically reward.