tropology noun3 •A recurring motif or metaphor, a trope; an interplay of tropes. •(rhetoric) The use of a trope (metaphor or figure of speech). •The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation.Where the syntax of propositions is broken, we see a very general principle of tropology that grants a priori that things like texts are replacements of things like authors. — 1993 formstropologies
