tropological

English

Adjective

tropological (comparative more tropological, superlative most tropological)

  1. Relating to or involving the interpretation of literature focusing on the ethical lesson or moral of the story.
    • 2001, William Royall Newman & Anthony Grafton, Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe, →ISBN, page 27:
      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.
  2. Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.
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