单词 | analogically |
释义 | analogicallyadv.ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > [adverb] > proportionally for the rate upon1425 rately1472 rate-like1476 rateably1490 partlike1531 analogically1570 pro rata1575 fairly1731 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiiij Chorographie..teacheth Analogically to describe a small portion or circuite of ground. 2. In accordance with analogy; by analogy or analogical means; (also) in an analogous manner. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > correspondingly or analogously accordinglyc1449 agreeingly1563 analogically1574 analogallya1631 analogously1646 homologically1864 1574 J. Jones Briefe Disc. Growing & Liuing Things sig. D.iiv But what is this perfection? I say it is only one, albeit ther be more concoccions and alterations analogicalli spoken. 1656 A. Cowley Poems 67 (note) Some new kinde of creature, called analogically by an old known name. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues i. 27 Not onely in Man, but analogically in the rest of Animals. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vii. 59 And first, whether are you for managing it analogically, or dialogically? 1807 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 5 276 Children learn to speak analogically in two years. 1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) I. 441 Reasoning analogically from the circumstances with which we are acquainted. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Blood line, a particular transmissible character in an animal, or, analogically, in a plant. 1947 Philos. & Phenomenological Res. 7 628 By an ‘analogical proposition’ I mean a proposition containing one or more terms used analogically. 2004 I. Livingston Ling. Comm. on Livius Andronicus 5 These forms cannot, therefore, be genuine archaisms, but rather have been analogically restored on the model of the 0-stems. 3. In an analogical sense; figuratively, symbolically. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adverb] > metaphorically or figuratively figurately?1531 metaphorally1548 tropically1556 metaphorically1571 analogically1610 allusively1615 figuratively1651 tropologetically1652 tralatitiously1657 tropologically1678 ideologically1861 1610 J. Dove Advt. Seminaries 23 Neither did the world beleeve that they were gods, but analogically as before. a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) i. li. 292 An Offering therefore is taken properly or analogically. 1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism i. vii. 131 They..do not make a Picture of a Divine Person, but of some of his Appearances only, that are analogically and metaphorically expressive of what he is. 1766 T. Knight Treat. Imputation Sin i. 9 It is only by anthropopeia, and not to be understood properly and formally, but figuratively, and analogically. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. ii. §8 A name used analogically or metaphorically. 1892 Science 15 July 38/1 The name ‘weed’ is connotative and implies in a plant a bad and hurtful quality. Used metaphorically or analogically it is always a term of opprobrium. 1955 A. Smethurst Mod. Sci. & Christian Beliefs 287 He rejects the very word ‘ascension’..on the ground that it implies a journey upwards in space; yet it can surely be used analogically or metaphorically. 2002 M. Desai Marx's Revenge (2004) x. 169 The expression ‘class warfare’ was meant analogically, not literally, by Marx and Engels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1570 |
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