单词 | tropology |
释义 | tropologyn. 1. Figurative interpretation, esp. of the Scriptures, used to give moral guidance. Also: an instance of this; a moral discourse. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > criticism, interpretation > [noun] > moral moralization1447 tropologyc1475 c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 107 (MED) If in dyuynite were no strenger groundis forto holde þerbi þingis to be trewe þan ben mystyk conceitis takun bi holy scripture, as ben tropologies, allegories, and anagogies, dyuynite were a symple and an vnsure faculte. a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 118 And this feste is callid tyme of Paske by historie, allegorie, and tropo[lo]gye. 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. 47 I can not, following both the storie, and the tropologie or doctrine of maners, comprehend both briefly. 1616 T. Beard Retractiue from Romish Relig. v. 130 By a tropologie a morall doctrine is deriued out of a text of Scripture. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tropology,..a Moral Discourse tending to the Reformation of Manners. 1848 Bibliotheca Sacra Feb. 139 Of the four doctors of the church particularized by some writers, to Gregory belongs excellence in tropology. 1896 L. Eckenstein Woman under Monasticism 113 The four-square pattern of ecclesiastical usage, namely according to the letter, allegory, tropology and anagogy. 1930 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 29 175 Tropology teaches morality; allegory, faith. 1968 Eng. Stud. 49 395 The tropology, thus, operates in each section: in part one, it is the individual's recognition of his sinfulness; in part two, the establishing of a pattern for the individual life. 2011 E. S. Constantinou in tr. Andrew of Caesarea Comm. on Apocalypse Introd. 27 The second level of meaning is tropology, also known as the ‘figurative’ or ‘moral’ sense. 2. A figure of speech, a metaphor. Also: figurative use of language. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > metaphor figure1435 transumptionc1449 metaphora1500 tropology1519 translation1534 inversion1538 transport1589 tralation1620 iconism1656 tralatition1864 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > metaphor > use of tropology1519 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria ix. f. 98v The figuris of construction and locucion: and specially allygoris: and tropologies: & anagogies. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 88 Those, that by Allegories and Tropologies peruert and obscure the Historie of their Gods. 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Origen in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 520 If Athena or Minerva be Tropologized into Prudence, then let the Pagans show what Substantial Essence it hath, or that it Really Subsists according to this Tropology. 1785 J. Fell Idolatry Greece & Rome ii. 66 Mnemosynes the mother of the Muses..never had any substantial existence answerable to such tropology or personification. 1797 A. Geddes Holy Bible Pref. vi A rude unpolished people, who, from the penury of their language and the paucity of their ideas, were under the necessity of expressing themselves by bold tropology, and wildly poetic images. 1829 Irish Shield July 258 As a proof of the daring felicity of his tropology, observe what boldness there is in his fine comparison of Pindar to a mountain torrent. 1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. vi. 170 But, whether due to tropology, or to whatever other cause, multivocals, as conducing to brevity and expressiveness, are unwisely condemned, or deprecated, except where they entail ambiguity. 1936 W. B. Stanford Greek Metaphor i. 21 Quintilian in despair dismisses all the clumsy machinery of tropology. 1984 G. Shapiro Hermeneutics 14 Tropology, as a universal science of figurative discourse, will transform the glorious anxiety of poetry into the merely calculable. 2008 D. Wills Dorsality v. 141 A series of turns and tropologies that articulate a complicated figural or figurative set of gestures. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [noun] > treatise on figures of speech tropologya1667 a1667 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. in Wks. (1831) IV. 160 Vocabularies, tropologies, and expositions of words and phrases. 1768 J. Brown (title) Sacred tropology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1475 |
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