adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a tropological manner (in either sense of the adj.).

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1549.  Chaloner, Erasm. Praise Folly, N iv b. Moralisyng the same bothe Allegorically, Tropologically, and Anegogically.

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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.

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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.

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1888.  Schaff, Hist. Chr. Ch., VI. I. xxxii. 139. Jerusalem means … allegorically the good, tropologically virtue, anagogically reward.

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