tropologize

English

Etymology

tropology +‎ -ize

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹəˈpɒləd͡ʒaɪz/

Verb

tropologize (third-person singular simple present tropologizes, present participle tropologizing, simple past and past participle tropologized)

1. (transitive) To use (a word) in a tropological sense; to make a trope of.
   • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

     If […] Minerva be tropologized into prudence

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tropologize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)