tropologize

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English

Etymology

From tropology +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɹəˈpɒləd͡ʒaɪz/

Verb

tropologize (third-person singular simple present tropologizes, present participle tropologizing, simple past and past participle tropologized)

  1. (transitive) To use (a word) in a tropological sense; to make into a trope
    • 1678, R Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: Richard Royston, , →OCLC:
      If [] Minerva be tropologized into prudence

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