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.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     tropological , allegorical expositions

   • 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.

Derived terms

• tropologically

Anagrams

• protological