tropology
noun
tro·pol·o·gy
trōˈpäləjē
plural -es
1
a
: a figurative mode of speech or writing
b
: a mode of biblical interpretation stressing a moral meaning inhering in the metaphorical character of language
2
: a treatise on or compilation of tropes
Word History
Etymology
Late Latin tropologia, from Late Greek, from tropos trope (from Greek, turn, manner, style) + Greek -logia -logy
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1b
- conidiospores
- conidium
- conies
- conifer
- Coniferae
- Coniferales
- coniferaleses
- coniferalesses
- coniferin
- coniferophytae
- Coniferophytae
- coniferophytas
- coniferophyte
- coniferophytic
- coniferophytinae
- coniferophytinas
- coniferopsidae
- coniferopsidas
- coniferous
- conifers
- coniferyl alcohol
- conification
- coniform
- coniine
- coniines