Eccl. [ad. med.L. troparium, troperium, f. L. tropus TROPE (sense 5).] = TROPER.
14[?]. Nom., in Wr.-Wülcker, 719/34. Hic troporius, a tropery.
1725. J. Lewis, Life Pecocke (1744), 158. It was usual to swear on the tropery or t[r]oper, a book of sequences.
1882. Church Q. Rev., 276. A very considerable number of the Service Books in use … in Anglo-Saxon times survive…. They consist of Sacramentaries or Missals, Troparies, Passionals [etc.].
