单词 | troping |
释义 | tropingn. 1. (The use of) figurative or metaphorical language; spec. (in later use): interpretation or representation of something figuratively; use (of a figure of speech, an image, etc.) as a recurrent motif (cf. trope n. 7). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [noun] > figurative language troping1680 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper v. i. 54 Will you leave your Troping, and let me pass? 1834 C. E. Richardson Poems i. 76 Then who would turmoil common brains, And influenza fancies,—hoping To win the bays with stiff-neck'd troping? 1977 H. Bloom Wallace Stevens xiv. 395 If I may trope Hollander's troping of me, tropes have nothing to do with not being literal, since ordinarily nothing is literal anyway. 1987 Ess. in Crit. 37 25 Many elegies involve the troping of precursors. 1990 Raritan Spring 29 Through troping, deconstructive tendencies are acknowledged and contravened. 1994 B. Parry in Third Text 28 7 An enchantment with troping, punning and riddling all too often sends the signifier into free-fall, rendering arbitrary the link between word and signified. 2009 J. Bowman Narrated Trav. & Rhetorical Tropes ii. 58 Durrell resumes his troping of the Turk as a reptile. 2. Chiefly Christian Church. The composition or use of tropes; the embellishment of a liturgical text or composition with a trope (trope n. 1b). ΚΠ 1900 M. A. R. Tuker Liturgy in Rome i. 23 The troping of the Christmas epistle commences thus: Boene genz por qui suavement Diex de char vestir se deigna. 1907 J. M. Manly in Mod. Philol. 4 593 It was an age of troping. Tropes—that is, insertions in the authorized liturgy—were composed by the hundreds, and of all conceivable varieties. 1949 E. E. Nemmers Twenty Cent. Catholic Church Music ii. 70 The process of ‘troping’ afflicted all parts of the Mass except the Credo which was already a syllabic chant. 1990 Speculum 65 443 He connects the short ‘Skeltonic’ poetic line with the strophic rhythms of plainsong, and liturgical troping to the antiphonic text of ‘Phyllyp Sparrow.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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