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analogize, v.|əˈnælədʒaɪz|
[f. analogy + -ize. Perh. immediately from Fr. analogiser (in Cotgr. 1611), f. same elements.]
1. intr. To employ analogy; to speak or reason analogically; (orig.) by proportion or ratio.
1655Let. in Hartlib Ref. Commonw. Bees 34 My Receipt would be contemptible, if I should analogize by proportion. 1849J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. LXVI. 253 Try to render ‘State’ by any other word, and you will be put to it. You may analogise. 1881G. Macdonald M. Marston xliii, Shall I analogise yet a little farther?
2. trans. To represent by analogy, to figure.
a1743Cheyne (J.) We have systems of material bodies, diversely figured..: they represent the object of the desire, which is analogized by attraction or gravitation.
3. trans. To make, or show to be, analogous.
1802E. Palmer Princ. Nature vi. (1826) 52 We cannot analogize these facts with the planetary system.
4. intr. (for refl.) To show itself analogous, to be in general harmony.
1733Cheyne Eng. Mal. i. x. §2 (1734) 91 Light..where it finds proper Organs, concurs and analogises in these Organs, with the established Laws of Bodies. 1872F. Hall False Philol. 66 Exceptions, so called..analogize with special providences in the mundane order. |