单词 | tropist |
释义 | tropistn. 1. Chiefly derogatory. A person who (esp. in relation to 16th cent. controversy about the nature of the Eucharist) challenges the literal meaning of Scripture or some passage of Scripture by explaining it as tropes or figurative language; an adherent of Reformed (non-Lutheran) Protestantism. Hence (more generally): a Protestant. See tropic n. 3. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > [noun] > person evangelical1532 gospeller1533 Protestant?1551 tropist1561 proculstant1589 tropic1607 evangelic1620 religionary1622 reformed1679 Prot1725 Prod1837 gospellist1845 right-footer1929 left-footer1933 Christian1951 Proddy Dog1954 Proddy-hopper1958 Proddy-woddy1959 Proddy1963 society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > tropics > [noun] > member tropist1561 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. xvii. f. 127 Let our aduersaries cesse to heape vnsauory scoffings against vs, in calling vs Tropistes [L. Tropistas vocando]: because we expounde the Sacramental maner of speakyng after the common vse of the Scripture. 1631 Bp. T. Morton Of Inst. Sacrament ii. ii. 88 Our Romish Adversaries..condemne Protestants for holding the Sacramentall speeches of Christ to be figurative, calling them Tropists. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Romanists also give the Appellation Tropists to those of the Reform'd Religion; in regard of their constructing the Words of the Eucharist figuratively. c1850 J. McGill tr. J. M. V. Audin Hist. Life, Wks. & Doctr. John Calvin xxxvii. 403 At the death of Zwingle, the church of Zurich was divided into various sects: the Significatives, the Tropists, the Energicals [etc.]. 1893 P. Schaff Swiss Reformation II. iii. xvi. §147. 753 To the Tropists he [sc. Michael Serveto] concedes that bread and wine are symbols, but he objects to the idea of the absence of Christ in heaven. 1965 O. W. Heick Hist. of Christian Thought (rev. ed.) I. iii. vii. 434 Calvin resents being called a ‘Tropist’. 1997 F. Lestringant Cannibals ii vi. 71 Adept at rhetorical readings of the Bible: in the language of the time, he was a ‘tropist’. 2. A person who uses tropes or metaphors. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > metaphor > one who metaphorist1727 tropist1775 metaphorician1958 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Tropist, one who deals in tropes. 1886 Boston Daily Advertizer 19 July 4/6 Why does Dante's work stand? Because of its righteous and truthful content. The tropist is God's witness. 1950 Mod. Philol. 47 226 Empson was really a tropist manqué. 1986 Rev. Eng. Stud. 37 559 Shakespeare was by nature a ‘tropist’; Spenser was by nature a ‘schematic figurist’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1561 |
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