单词 | analogist |
释义 | analogistn.1 1. A person who looks for or employs analogy or analogies, or is inclined to do so. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > correspondence, analogy, or parallelism > one who is occupied with analogies analoger1606 analogist1612 1612 T. James Jesuits Downefall 10 Every one of them [sc. Jesuits] must be..superlatiue in all things. All superlatiues, all Analogists, all Metaphysitians. 1654 J. Tombes Anti-pædobaptism: 2nd Pt. ii. 15 Those analogists that determine from the Commands about the Mosaical Rites and usages what must be done..about the meer positive worship and Church-order of the New Testament. 1777 R. De Courcy Rejoinder iv. 161 According to our candid analogist, a person may be said to be overwhelmed in baptism, when the water is only poured on a part of the body. 1836 R. W. Emerson Nature 35 Man is an analogist and studies relations in all objects. 1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. 139 The Universe itself..is a mighty emblem, and man is the analogist who, by the Word that lighteth him, is enabled to decipher it. 1910 Condor 12 206/2 He [sc. Thoreau] never became in any respect an expert ornithologist... He was too intent on becoming an expert analogist. 1990 Post-Standard (N.Y.) 22 May c5/1 McCarver suggested that it was like catching without knowing what pitch was coming... This resulted in an attempt by Ralph the analogist to describe it even better. ‘It would,’ he proposed, ‘be like going camping without a map.’ 2. ΚΠ 1765 J. Elphinston Princ. Eng. Lang. Digested I. Pref. p. iii The tongues of antiquity have indeed become the objects of both [sc. reason and philosophy] with ingenious as well as learned analogists of ancient and modern times. 1818 J. Walker Crit. Pronouncing Dict. (ed. 11) 533/2 I have every orthoepist in the language against me in the preference I give to the first sound of this word, except Mr. Elphinstone [sic]; and his authority as an analogist outweighs every other. 1886 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 7 175 There remains a very small group of passages that have thus far defied the analogist. b. Linguistics and Philosophy. An adherent of the view (particularly associated with a school of Greek grammarians existing between the 2nd cent. b.c. and 1st cent. a.d.) that language has an innate, logical structure deriving from a fundamental correspondence between words and the things they denote. Opposed to anomalist. ΚΠ 1854 C. C. J. Bunsen Outl. Philos. Universal Hist. I. 40 According to one [school], language existed by nature (objectively); according to the other, by a positive, arbitrary act of man (subjectively). The first were, according to another term, analogists; the others, anomalists. 1865 F. W. Farrar Chapters on Lang. xxii. 261 Heraclitus here enunciated the most absolute views of the Analogist school,—that Words are the immediate copies of Things, produced by Nature herself, not due to any subjective influence of human caprice, but corresponding to Realities by an objective necessity. 1919 Classical Q. 13 24 By the analogist language is conceived as a world in itself, much as we conceive of the visual world. 1972 P. M. Fraser Ptolemaic Alexandria I. i. viii. 466 The feud on this topic between the two scholars was notable..and one may doubt whether, at its height in the mid-second century, an anomalist would have been able to support himself in Alexandria, or an analogist in Pergamum. 1998 Word 49 90 There are many remarkable similarities between the philosophies and theoretical views of these two schools and the analogists and anomalists in the Greek grammatical tradition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † analogistn.2 Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. A person who has no obligation to render an account. ΚΠ 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Analogists, Tutors who are not bound to give account of those whom they have under tuition: as Guardians and Protectors of Wards. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.11612n.21656 |
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