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Webster 1913 Edition
Tropical
1.
Of or pertaining to the tropics; characteristic of, or incident to, the tropics; being within the tropics;
as,
tropical
climate; tropical
latitudes; tropical
heat; tropical
diseases.2.
[From
Trope
.] Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.
Jer. Taylor.
The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the
tropical
or allusive part of the parable and the thing intended by it. South.
Tropic month
. See
– Lunar month
, under Month
. Tropic year
, the solar year; the period occupied by the sun in passing from one tropic or one equinox to the same again, having a mean length of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 46.0 seconds, which is 20 minutes, 23.3 seconds shorter than the sidereal year, on account of the precession of the equinoxes.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tropical
TROP'ICAL
,Adj.
1.
Incident to the tropics; as tropical diseases.2.
[from trope.] Figurative; rhetorically changed from its proper or original sense. The foundation of all parables is some analogy or similitude between the tropical or allusive part of the parable, and the thing intended by it.
Tropical writing or hieroglyphic, is such as represents a thing by qualities which resemble it.