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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
tropological en · ADJ
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Relating to or involving the interpretation of literature focusing on the ethical lesson or moral of the story.
Even the widely revered description of alchemy as terrestrial astronomy was a tropological association, comparing one discipline to the other rather than using the tools of the former in the operation of the latter.
2001, William Royall Newman, Anthony Grafton, Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe, →ISBN, page 27:tropological , allegorical expositions
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
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Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.
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