tropologize

From tropology +‎ -ize.

• IPA^(key): /tɹəˈpɒləd͡ʒaɪz/

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.
   • 1678, 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: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

     If […] Minerva be tropologized into prudence

• “tropologize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.