tropological
English
Adjective
tropological (comparative more tropological, superlative most tropological)
- 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.
- Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burton to this entry?)