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tropologize

/tɹəˈpɒləd͡ʒaɪz/

tropologize verb: to use (a word) in a tropological sense; to make into a trope.

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 into a trope.
    • If […] Minerva be tropologized into prudence1678, 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: […]...

Forms of tropologize

third-person singular presenttropologizes
present participletropologizing
past participletropologized
pasttropologized

Origin of tropologize

From tropology + -ize.

Questions about tropologize

What does tropologize mean?
Tropologize means to use (a word) in a tropological sense; to make into a trope.
What part of speech is tropologize?
Tropologize is a verb.
How do you pronounce tropologize?
Tropologize is pronounced /tɹəˈpɒləd͡ʒaɪz/.
What is the past tense of tropologize?
The past tense of tropologize is tropologized.

Words near tropologize in the dictionary

  1. tropologies
  2. tropologise
  3. tropologised
  4. tropologises
  5. tropologising
  6. tropologize
  7. tropologized
  8. tropologizes
  9. tropologizing
  10. tropology
  11. tropolone

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