tropology

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Likewise, in accordance with tropology (_m_), we ought to regard as false prophets those who interpret the words of the scriptures otherwise than as the Holy Spirit utters them, and as divine those who from the inferences of their own minds and apart from the authority of divine words, proclaim as true the uncertain events of the future.

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  1. noun The use of tropes in speech or writing.
  2. noun A mode of biblical interpretation insisting on the morally edifying sense of tropes in the Scriptures.

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  • Likewise, in accordance with tropology (_m_), we ought to regard as false prophets those who interpret the words of the scriptures otherwise than as the Holy Spirit utters them, and as divine those who from the inferences of their own minds and apart from the authority of divine words, proclaim as true the uncertain events of the future. —  Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities
  • Schreiner are concerned to demonstrate the degree to which Guibert's vision of history is ruled by theology, and tropology in particular; both articles can be read as respectful corrections of Bernard Monod, —  The Deeds of God Through the Franks
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  1. Late Latin tropologia, from Late Greek tropologiā : Greek tropos, trope; see trope + Greek -logiā, -logy.

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  1. from Greek τρόπος, a figure of speech, a trope, + -λογία, from λέγειν, say (see -ology).
 

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/trəˈpɑlədʒi/
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