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PRONUNCIATION OF TROPOLOGICAL

tropological  [ˌtrəʊpəˈlɒdʒɪkəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TROPOLOGICAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tropological is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TROPOLOGICAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tropological reading

Tropological reading is a Christian tradition, theory, and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of the Bible. It is part of Biblical exegesis.

Definition of tropological in the English dictionary

The definition of tropological in the dictionary is relating to the use of figurative language in speech or writing. Other definition of tropological is relating to the educing of moral or figurative meanings from the Scriptures.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TROPOLOGICAL


archaeological
ˌɑːkɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
biological
ˌbaɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
chronological
ˌkrɒnəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
ecological
ˌiːkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
genealogical
ˌdʒiːnɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
geological
ˌdʒiːəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
histological
ˌhɪstəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
hydrological
ˌhaɪdrəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
ideological
ˌaɪdɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
logical
ˈlɒdʒɪkəl
meteorological
ˌmiːtɪərəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
methodological
ˌmeθədəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
morphological
ˌmɔːfəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
neurological
ˌnjʊərəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
pathological
ˌpæθəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
pharmacological
ˌfɑːməkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
physiological
ˌfɪzɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
psychological
ˌsaɪkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
technological
ˌtɛknəˈlɒdʒɪkəl
theological
ˌθɪəˈlɒdʒɪkəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TROPOLOGICAL

tropine
tropism
tropismatic
tropist
tropistic
tropocollagen
tropologic
tropologically
tropologies
tropology
tropomyosin
troponin
tropopause
tropophilous
tropophyte
tropophytic
troposcatter
troposphere
tropospheric
tropotaxis

WORDS THAT END LIKE TROPOLOGICAL

anthropological
archeological
astrological
chemical
epidemiological
histopathological
illogical
immunological
liturgical
magical
metallurgical
microbiological
mineralogical
mythological
pedagogical
phraseological
radiological
surgical
topological
toxicological
zoological

Synonyms and antonyms of tropological in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tropological» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TROPOLOGICAL

Find out the translation of tropological to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tropological from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tropological» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

tropological
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tropológico
570 millions of speakers

English

tropological
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tropological
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tropological
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

tropological
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tropológico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tropological
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tropologique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tropologi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tropologischen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tropological
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tropological
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tropis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tropological
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tropological
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उष्ण कटिबंधीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mecaz kullanma ile ilgili
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tropologico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tropologicznego
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

tropological
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tropological
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tropological
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tropological
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tropological
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tropological
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tropological

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TROPOLOGICAL»

The term «tropological» is used very little and occupies the 177.623 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TROPOLOGICAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tropological» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tropological» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tropological

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TROPOLOGICAL»

Discover the use of tropological in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tropological and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Tropological Universe: Alexander Neckam's Encyclopedias ...
As I conclude, Neckam's mastery of the tropological method appears to have prevented him from correctly evaluating the importance of twelfth-century natural philosophers, and from satisfactorily responding to the challenges of the Cathar ...
Tomas Zahora, 2008
2
The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship ...
B. The Tropological Sense of Scripture One notices again and again that Eckhart takes refuge from his confusion about Scripture by adopting a tropological interpretation of the text. We have spoken about the typological sense of Scripture ...
Hughes Oliphant Old, 1999
3
Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect
It should be stressed, however, that tropological theories of discourse do not so much dissolve these distinctions as reconceptualize them. Whereas traditional critical theory views the literal and figurative, fictional and factual, referential and  ...
Hayden White, 2000
4
The Tropological Universe: Alexander Neckam's Encyclopedias ...
These works are packaged and produced by BiblioLabs under license by ProQuest UMI.
Tomas Zahora, Christopher W Avery, 2011
5
Locke, Literary Criticism, and Philosophy
postulated, one in relation to which common usage is identifiable as tropological. Nor does the fact that any given nontropological usage may be identified as tropological imply an infinite regress into different tropological usages. That one ...
William Walker, 1994
6
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues ...
If what emerges from the tropological displacement was pre-announced by what is being displaced - or if the logic of the displacement was governed by an a priori specifiable norm - the tropological dimension could not be constitutive of the ...
Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Žižek, 2000
7
Dorsality: Thinking Back Through Technology and Politics
The turn appears to function as a tropological inauguration of the subject, a founding moment whose ontological status remains permanently uncertain. . . . Perhaps with the advent of this figure, we are no longer in the business of “giving an ...
David Wills, 2008
8
Spiritual Exegesis and the Church in the Theology of Henri ...
Susan K. Wood. The Tropological Sense The tropological sense of Scripture is that sense which is the application of a scriptural text to the moral life. De Lubac explains that a trope, in the broadest sense of the word, is a figure of speech, a turn ...
Susan K. Wood, 1998
9
A Pragmatic Theory of Rhetoric
The medieval interpretive scheme of literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical meanings is rightly regarded as a fantastical scholastic curiosity when considered in the light of practical criticism. The system has been shown, nevertheless, ...
Walter H. Beale, 1987
10
To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American ...
Roper's narrative was the first popularly successful Afro-American autobiography to explore the rhetorical possibilities of combining the inductive and tropological modes of writing autobiography. It was the first narrative to place its reader's ...
William L. Andrews, 1988

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TROPOLOGICAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tropological is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Priest by the Cross
... to their historical and allegorical and tropological (that is, moral) and anagogical sense” (1.199). Of course, that must be just the reason the table had four feet. «First Things, Feb 15»
2
Derrida On Language
Similarly, the medieval Christian approach to the Bible declared there to be four ways to read each passage: literal, anagogic, typological and tropological. «Philosophy Now, Jan 14»
3
Advanced Women Poets: Books You May Only Be Hearing about Now
She preaches, poeticizes, and raps us, indeed, envelops us, into a tropological maze. She invites us to enjoy the logic of discursive possibilities, emotional ... «Huffington Post, Dec 13»
4
'I Was an Under-Age Semiotician'
(He quotes from a paper he wrote “at the age of 19”: “The predicament of any tropological analysis of narrative always lies in its own effaced and circuitous ... «New York Times, Oct 11»
5
I Was an Under-Age Semiotician
“The predicament of any tropological analysis of narrative always lies in its own effaced and circuitous recourse to a metaphoric mode of apprehending its object ... «New York Times, Oct 11»
6
Theologians ought to love this BBC series on the Bible. Too bad it …
... like the Person of His Incarnate Word, both fully human and fully divine, so that its canonical and ecclesial, allegorical and typological, tropological and moral, ... «Catholic Herald Online, Mar 11»
7
Harryette Mullen
She preaches, poeticizes, and raps us, indeed, envelops us, into a tropological maze. She invites us to enjoy the logic of discursive possibilities, emotional ... «PoetryFoundation.org, Feb 09»
8
דמות משה בספרות הגרמנית (מה זה מענין?)
... the allegorical or typological (linking New Testament events with those of the Old), the tropological or general moralising, and the anagogical (interpreting the ... «בננות, Feb 09»
9
An Interview with Alexander Theroux
It is fun to flirt by way of the fantastical with tropological levels, sort of demanding that readers ponder larger thoughts. As I say, my characters “take place” in that ... «Bookslut, Mar 08»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Tropological [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tropological>. Apr 2024 ».
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