(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:57:30

Tro*pol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. ; a trope + discourse: cf. F. tropologie.]

A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word.

Sir T. Browne.

 

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