tropological
- adjective
- /trəˈpɒlədʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
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tropológico
- When four levels of analysis are used, they follow a sequence of ascent from the historical (or literal) to the allegorical, the tropological (sometimes called the moral), and finally the anagogical (this anagogy not being the same as the anagogy of Pseudo-Dionysian thought).
- tropological and allegorical
Examples
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Rather, after reflecting on the allegorical information in the window, the viewer himself or herself is to come to a tropological conclusion, tropology being the indication through what is said to have been done of something else that ought to be done.
Academic text (2011) -
Commenting on this verse, Hugh notes that at the literal level the prophet introduces the theme of compassion, which he then develops into a tropological meaning, both individual and ecclesial:
Academic text (2008) -
And the tropological level indicates through what is said to have been done in this text something else that ought to be done.
Academic text (2011) -
The art of our time is itself less conceptual than tropological in nature.
Academic text (2007) -
Further evidence of this specific (meta) tropological standing of metamorphosis may be found in Jakobson's definitions of metaphor and metonymy.
Academic text (1996) -
Furthermore, despite its helpfulness in tracing down structures of metatextuality and personification, with a tropological reading of literary metamorphosis, we face the danger.
Academic text (1996) -
Similarly, the work of specific theologians could be examined—not only a tropological analysis of their writing, but a consideration of the entire range of persuasive elements in their work.
Academic text (1991) -
In any event, whether described as experiences of the ineffable, the undecidable, or simply the vague, they have long been of particular interest to the pragmatist philosophical tradition and are often produced, as Poirier has pointed out in The Renewal of Literature, by the tropological behavior of language itself.
Academic text (1990) -
It begins as a suspicion that Sarmiento's discourse is not governed by the requirements of logic or analysis; that reason and reasonableness may not be the best instruments for moving along its conceptual, tropological, or thematic paths.
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In theology, a tropological interpretation of scripture provides moral lessons that can guide individuals in their daily lives.
Synonyms
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Relating to explaining a text, often religious texts like the Bible
Gives a religious text a spiritual or hidden meaning
Surface Forms
Morphology
tropological = tropology (opaque) = tropo + ical
Although built from 'tropology' + '-ical', the theological 'moral interpretation' sense is specialized and not predictable from the base by an average learner.
Etymology
Tropological comes from the Greek root tropos, which means 'turn' or 'way', and a helpful image is that a reader 'turns' the story into a lesson. So tropological refers to the moral or spiritual meaning you find in a text.