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▪ I. † aˈnalogist1 Obs.—0 [ad. med.L. analogista, used app. in error for alogista = an alleged Gr. *ἀλογιστής one who does not render an account, f. ἀ priv. + λόγος account.]
1656Blount Glossogr., Analogists, Tutors who are not bound to give account of those whom they have under tuition: as Guardians and Protectors of Wards. ▪ II. analogist2|aˈnælədʒɪst| [f. analogize, -ism: see -ist.] 1. One who occupies himself with analogies, either in searching for them, pointing them out, or arguing from them.
1836Emerson Nature 35 Man is an analogist and studies relations in all objects. 1856― Eng. Traits xiv. 239 Bacon, in the structure of his mind, held of the analogists, of the idealists, or (as we popularly say, naming from the best example) Platonists. 1860Farrar Orig. 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. 2. A philosopher who saw in words images or analogues of the things expressed by them.
1860Farrar Orig. Lang. i. 7 The philosophers who held these views [that language was innate] were called Analogists, while those who leaned to the conventional origin of language were styled Anomalists. |