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Definition of: tropology
(trō·pol′ə·jē) noun
1. The use of tropical or figurative language.
2. Consideration or treatment of the Scriptures both literally and figuratively, or as having a double sense.
3. A treatise on figures of speech. [<LL tropologia <Gk. <tropos TROPE + logos discourse]
—trop·o·log·ic (trop′ə·loj′ik) or ·i·cal adjective
—trop′o·log′i·cal·ly adverb
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