tropologizev.
/trəˈpɒlədʒʌɪz/, /trɒˈpɒlədʒʌɪz/, U.S. /trəˈpɑləˌdʒaɪz/ Now somewhat rare.
transitive. To change (a person or thing) by a trope or metaphor; to use (something) in a tropological sense. Also intransitive: to use troplogical interpretation. Cf. tropological adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > express with figure of meaning [verb (transitive)] > express metaphorically or figuratively > use metaphorically or figuratively
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1678 R. Cudworth tr. Origen in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 520 If Athena or Minerva be Tropologized [Gk. τροπολογῆται] into Prudence, then let the Pagans show what Substantial Essence it hath, or that it Really Subsists according to this Tropology.
1695 P. Hume Ann. Paradise Lost xi. 315 This Sevenfold Candlestick was the Image of the Heavenly Sphere, representing the Seven Planets, as Philo Tropologizes on the Text.
1722 T. Woolston Free-gift to Clergy 7 To allegorize and tropologize the Law and the Prophets.
1885 W. L. Alexander Zechariah xiii. 188 A disposition has shown itself among Christian interpreters..to tropologise this passage, and to use it as referring to deliverance from the tyranny and evil of sin.
1980 Hist. & Theory 19 17 One of structuralism's adaptive strengths has been its flexibility in accommodating the requirements of psychoanalysis (by tropologizing the dream-work).
2008 D. Wills Dorsality vii. 213 No one tropologizes more exhaustingly; no one controverts more unfailingly [than Nietzsche].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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