Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who deals in tropes; especially, one who explains the Scriptures by tropes, or figures of speech.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who deals in tropes
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- noun One who deals in
tropes . - noun One who avoids the
literal meaning of the language ofScripture by explaining it as meretropes andfigures of speech .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thus known results of the latter theory are made available to illuminate the tropist project.
Tropes Bacon, John 2008
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Armstrong, Simons, and others (perhaps Leibniz), Mormann is a kernel tropist, taking individuals as primitive, along with qualitons.
Tropes Bacon, John 2008
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D.H. Mellor and Thomas H.fweber have objected, in independent conversations with the author, that the above tropist account of predication in terms of overlapping makes exemplification symmetric: it fails to explain which is the subject and which is the the predicate, or which is the individual and which is the universal.
Tropes Bacon, John 2008
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As an unreconstructed tropist, I can't help suspecting that Mormann's tremendously insightful researches have grown for him like a favorite child whom the doting parent can but imagine in one costume, that of kernel tropism rather than classical tropism.
Tropes Bacon, John 2008
fbharjo commented on the word tropist
(n.) One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.
This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary
March 11, 2011