tropological in English

adjective

[trop·o·log·i·cal || ‚trɑpə'lɑdʒɪkl /‚trɒpə'lɒ-]

of tropology, pertaining to tropology (use and interpretation of figurative language)

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1. In these Sermons he commented on the texts of Scripture presented by the Liturgy, using the patristic and medieval interpretation of the four senses: the literal or historical, the allegorical or Christological, the tropological or moral, and the anagogical, which orients a person to eternal life.

2. Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the Allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense