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analogical, a.|ænəˈlɒdʒɪkəl|
[f. L. analogic-us (see prec.) + -al1.]
†1. Math. Proportional; in exact ratio. Obs.
1570Dee Math. Præf. 17 The perfect Analogicall description of the Ocean Sea coastes.
2. Of the nature of analogy; consisting in, constituted by, in accordance with analogy.
1609E. Hoby Let. Mr. T. H. 41 Far more Analogicall is Saint Chrysostoms exposition. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 5 To spell out future events, by making such analogical interpretations as they use to do in augury. 1763Price in Phil. Trans. LIII. 372 The strength of analogical or inductive reasoning. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes (1850) 29/1 Some of the analogical signs which (guided by his faculty of imitation) he had contrived. 1873H. Rogers Superh. Orig. Bible App. (ed. 3) 438 In any ‘type’ it is only analogical resemblance that is pretended.
3. Expressing an analogy, naming a thing after something else to which it has an analogy, metonymic; as the heart of an apple; the apple of the eye; the mouth of a cave; a man's signature.
1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Pref. 18 Affecting too much the analogicall Latine, he leaves many times untold the true sense of our Saxon. 1724Watts Log. (J.) When a word..is attributed to several other objects, not by way of resemblance, but on the account of some evident reference to the original idea, this is peculiarly called an analogical word. 1843Mill Logic iii. xx. §1 When a country which has sent out colonies is termed the mother country, the expression is analogical.
†4. So called by analogy; figurative. Obs.
a1638Mede Wks. i. xlii. 235 The food wherewith Spirits are fed is analogical, spiritual and not corporal.
5. Of analogy; = analogic.
1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xviii. 411 Argument in the analogical field. 1872W. Minto Eng. Lit. i. i. 47 The activity of his analogical faculty.
6. = analogous. arch.
1644Bulwer Chiron. 15 Analogicall to this is that symboll of the Cynique. 1664Power Exp. Philos. iii. 156 Some Parallel and Analogical effects. 1666Phil. Trans. I. 144 Being Analogical to our Moon, it is most likely they are moved in like manner. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. iv. viii. 348 Zootomy has been suggested as a better name [than Animal Anatomy] but it is not quite analogical to anatomy. |