Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Founded on or involving analogy: as, an analogical argument.
- Having analogy, resemblance, or relation; analogous.
- In biology, of or pertaining to physiological, functional, or adaptative analogy; having physiological without morphological likeness: distinguished from
homological .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Founded on, or of the nature of, analogy; expressing or implying analogy.
- adjective Having analogy; analogous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, based on, or composed of an
analogy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy
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Examples
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Second, it has a certain analogical strength (particularly upon first impression).
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If this is a Schiavo thing, it’s lacking in analogical power, but I’ll leave it at that.
Moral Intuition Poll 2005
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The difference is, that in the case of a complete induction it has been previously shown, by due comparison of instances, that there is an invariable conjunction between the former property or properties and the latter property; but in what is called analogical reasoning, no such conjunction has been made out.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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Hence though they are liable to surprise, when their passing trains of ideas are dissevered by violent stimuli; yet are they not affected with wonder or astonishment at the novelty of objects; as they possess but in a very inferior degree, that voluntary power of comparing the present ideas with those previously acquired, which distinguishes mankind; and is termed analogical reasoning, when deliberatively exerted; and intuitive analogy, when used without our attention to it, and which always preserves our hourly trains of ideas consistent with truth and nature.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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These "analogical" processes are at the heart of scientific exploration.
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He submitted, in a low voice across the table to Bishop, that it was a kind of analogical illustration of those physical laws, in virtue of which Like flies to
Little Dorrit 2007
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The secret at the heart of all things is gift; and the purpose of God in so giving a share in his action, an 'analogical' echo of his own life, is that what is not God may be suffused with God's joy.
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The secret at the heart of all things is gift; and the purpose of God in so giving a share in his action, an 'analogical' echo of his own life, is that what is not God may be suffused with God's joy.
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It is evident that as a note may be interpolated between any two of the scale, for reach or variety, and called, _e. g._ [sharp] - F or [flat -] G, so a half tint between green and blue is a kind of analogical [sharp] green or [flat] blue.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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The discovery of Uranus, at a distance falling but slightly short of perfect conformity with the law of Titius, lent weight to a seemingly hazardous prediction, and Von Zach was actually at the pains, in 1785, to calculate what he termed "analogical" elements [200] for this unseen and (by any effect or influence) _unfelt_ body.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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