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tropologizing

tropologizing is the present participle and gerund of tropologize.

Meaning of tropologize

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: […]...

Questions about tropologizing

What is tropologizing the present participle and gerund of?
Tropologizing is the present participle and gerund of tropologize.

Words near tropologizing in the dictionary

  1. tropologises
  2. tropologising
  3. tropologize
  4. tropologized
  5. tropologizes
  6. tropologizing
  7. tropology
  8. tropolone
  9. tropolones
  10. tropometer
  11. tropometers

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