analogicaladj.

1564 J. Rastell Confut. Serm. M. Iuell f.117^v Nothing at all, shall escape vs, but we will bring it vnto some good sense, allegoricall, morall, or analogicall.

1609 E. Hoby Let. to Mr. T. H. 41 Far more Analogicall is Saint Chrysostoms exposition.

1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. iii. 99 Some of the analogical signs which (guided by his faculty of imitation) he had contrived.

1874 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible App. 438 In any ‘type’ it is only analogical resemblance that is pretended.

1964 W. Sellars in Jrnl. Philos. 61 657 The concept of a proposition as something that can be expressed by sentences in both Mentalese and, say, English is an analogical extension of the concept of a proposition as something that can be expressed by sentences in both English and German.

1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 May 43/1 He..then asserts the analogical equivalence of autobiography and the self-reports given in response to our questions.

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiiij^v Stratarithmetrie, is the Skill, (appertainyng to the warre,) by which a man can set in figure, analogicall to any Geometricall figure appointed, any certaine number or summe of men.

1597 G. Harvey Trimming T. Nashe To Rdr., sig. A4^v The men of Minda, (whose gates were greater in analogicall proportion then their Citie).

1606 B. Barnes Foure Bks. Offices sig. Aiv ^v The geometricall & analogicall harmonie draweth these other rebels..to this vniuersall muster, that they may be precisely viewed and measured by the cube of reason.

1664 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Wks. xiv. 78 There are stable properties in those places: but if they are not stable, that happens in respect of other Stars brought with them by an analogicall or proportionable motion.

1577 J. Dee Gen. Mem. Arte Nauig. 21 To deme Seas betwene diuers next Kingdoms, to be in like and Analogicall Condicion, in respect of King and King: As fresh water Riuers, are, in Respect of Priuate Subiects.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 15 Analogicall to this is that symboll of the Cynique.

1666 Philos. Trans. 1665–6 (Royal Soc.) 1 144 Being Analogical to our Moon, it is most likely they are moved in like manner.

1701 M. Bee Lady's Perspective Glass 19 Whose case with that of the tottering house above..being so exactly Parallel, so surprisingly Analogicall that (but for the specifick difference) they might be Identify'd.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. Introd. p. v Any thing which is analogical or similar to what is in the latter.

1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. viii. 576 Zootomy has been suggested as a better name [than Animal Anatomy], but it is not quite analogical to anatomy.

1910 Times 26 Dec. 6/3 It is analogical to the whole tone and spirit of our Commonwealth.

1998 Church Times 8 May 24/1 Carol Meyers appeals to..studies about the organisation of analogical agrarian societies in order to interpret the mute archaeological artefacts.

1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Pref. 18 Affecting too much the analogicall Latine, he leaves many times untold the true sense of our Saxon.

1725 I. Watts Logick i. iv. §7, 101 When a Word..is attributed to several other Objects, not so much by way of Resemblance, but rather on the account of some evident Reference or Relation to the original Idea, this is sometimes peculiarly called an analogical Word.

1773 E. Bentham Introd. Logick ii. vi. 33 This kind of analogical language becomes necessary, when we offer to express even our natural notions concerning Almighty God, and spiritual Beings.

1823 J. Hill tr. H. Aldrich Rudim. of Logic 10 The Analogical noun is that of which two or more significations, without being either entirely the same, or entirely different, have with regard to one another a certain Analogy, Resemblance, or Reference.

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. iii. xx. §1 When a country which has sent out colonies is termed the mother country, the expression is analogical.

1884 N.E.D. at Analogy n. This [sc. analogy] is..often expressed proportionally, as when we say ‘Knowledge is to the mind, what light is to the eye.’ The general recognition of this analogy makes light, or enlightenment, or illumination, an analogical word for knowledge.

1961 R. McInerny Logic of Analogy iv. 49 To say that some words are analogous is to say something about the way they signify; and, if some words signify analogously while others do not, signification itself is presupposed by a doctrine on analogical words and should be considered first.

2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 8/2 The assertion..of the essentially gendered nature of the fatherhood of God is rejected, in The Call for Women Bishops, as an instance of mistaking metaphorical for analogical language.

a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) i. xlii. 235 The food wherewith Spirits are fed is analogical, spiritual and not corporal.

a1677 W. Alleine Myst. Temple & City (1679) 159 And together herewith, there were Analogical Heavens and Earth, which also perished by water.

1893 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 14 258 All the root-determinatives are in a bad way, and one hears the mutterings of an analogical storm before which they seem doomed to go down.

1973 J. Berryman Recovery (1974) 177 He himself thought about problems—putting them through sieves.., re-structuring them, hitting them with analogical blindalleys and mare's-nests.

1678 R. Cudworth tr. Plotinus in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 5 To spell out future Events, by making such Analogical Interpretations as they use to do in Augury.

1764 Philos. Trans. 1763 (Royal Soc.) 53 372 The strength of analogical or inductive reasoning.

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers i. iv. 53 Analogical reasoning..may afford a greater or a less degree of probability, according as the things compared are more or less similar in their nature.

1903 Biblical World 21 315 The analogical interpretation of all reality by means of a category obtained from our own experience, which is so small a part of that reality, is a method which cannot yield absolute certainty.

1992 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 27 Mar. 24/4 The challenge of analogical reasoning is that it requires an ability to identify relevant similarities and differences between the facts of legal cases.

1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters xviii. 411 Argument in the analogical field.

1872 W. Minto Man. Eng. Prose Lit. i. i. 47 The activity of his analogical faculty.

1905 F. Greenslet J. R. Lowell iv. 153 Such glows of humor alternate with flights of imaginative eloquence of the most stirring kind, in which the analogical faculty of the poet finds expression in some heightened similitude.

1993 A. W. Shapiro Fits, Passions, & Paroxysms 110 Now that he has established..the phenomenological basis for his analogical theory, let us follow his attempt to demonstrate that theory.