analogical
adjective
based on, involving, or expressing an analogy.
analogically
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a word derived from
analogical.
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a word derived from
analogy.
analogynouna similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based.
Example Sentences
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But the two are related, if only analogically.
From Slate ● May 3, 2016
An intermediate case is that of a name used analogically or metaphorically, that is, in two senses, one its primary, the other its secondary sense.
From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by W. (William) Stebbing
Instead of taking speculation and reasoning upon theories, he carried out the inductive system of Bacon in its entirety, reasoning from separate generic facts, instead of analogically.
From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Charles Bradlaugh
And in this way some things are said of God and creatures analogically, and not in a purely equivocal nor in a purely univocal sense.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
For where do we know that causes arise without their corresponding effects; at least we must here, on so abstract a subject, reason analogically.
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald
