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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK]; [GREEK] a trope + [GREEK] discourse: cf. F.

tropologie

A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word.

Sir T. Browne.

Noun.

[Gr. trope, and discourse.] A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or change from the original import of the word.