tropologize

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/tɹəˈpɒləd͡ʒaɪz/

verb

To use (a word) in a tropological sense; to make into a trope.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person tropologizes · participle present tropologizing · participle past tropologized · past tropologized

  1. transitiveTo use (a word) in a tropological sense; to make into a trope.

    If […] Minerva be tropologized into prudence

    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

Origin

From tropology + -ize.

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APA

tropologize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tropologize

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“tropologize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tropologize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tropologize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tropologize.

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