tropologic
tro·pol·o·gy
(trō-pŏl′ə-jē)n. pl. tro·pol·o·gies
1. The use of tropes in speech or writing.
2. A mode of biblical interpretation insisting on the morally edifying sense of tropes in the Scriptures.
[Late Latin tropologia, from Late Greek tropologiā : Greek tropos, trope; see trope + Greek -logiā, -logy.]
tro′po·log′ic (trō′pə-lŏj′ĭk, trŏp′ə-), tro′po·log′i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) adj.
tro′po·log′i·cal·ly adv.
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