单词 | analogize |
释义 | analogizev. 1. a. intransitive. To correspond to; to resemble; to accord or agree with. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > be similar [verb (intransitive)] > correspond answer?c1225 to run together?c1225 agreea1525 correspond1529 respond1563 quadrate1610 analogize1646 homologize1733 begin1862 1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Second Part Hist. Civil Warres Eng. vii. 76 Puntillioes of honour, and injuries for which satisfaction is not to be given, do so far incense men, as humane nature may seeme somewhat to Analogize with cruelty [It. auer qualche analogia con la crudeltà]. 1664 D. Turberville Let. Oct. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. 379 Doctor Smith of Braze nose my uncle used to give his patients..a spirit.., and for ought I know my sheepe headed spirit may analogize as to that part. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady i. x. 91 Light..where it finds proper Organs, concurs and analogises in these Organs, with the established Laws of Bodies. 1817 J. Gray 1st Pt. Fiend of Reformation Detected viii. 80 The answer may be, that regeneration in the new covenant, is the point which analogizes with generation in the old. 1872 F. Hall Rec. Exempl. False Philol. 66 Exceptions, so called..analogize with special providences in the mundane order. 1953 Amer. Anthropologist 55 395 There comes into existence something that previously had not existed, by a process-behavior that analogizes with the ‘unfolding’ of a bud when it becomes a blossom. 1988 M. Charney Hamlet's Fictions ii. v. 62 It should come as no surprise that the revenge theme analogizes so well with two kinds of play: sexual play and the play in the theater. b. transitive. Chiefly North American. To represent as analogous; to equate; to draw a parallel between, compare. Frequently with to, with. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)] > equate in value evenOE parifyc1487 value1560 equalize1599 equal1607 impale1647 equiparate1671 analogize1801 equate1840 par1878 1801 E. Palmer Princ. Nature vi. 82 Upon the earth all the different kinds of animals, and all the individuals of each kind are seen in succession to die and dissolve into Nature... But we cannot analogize these facts with the planetary system. 1888 Catholic World Aug. 593 In illustration, he analogizes the school system with the prison. 1907 Harvard Law Rev. 21 151 The writer, after analogizing escheat and reversion, insists that dedications by tenants in fee under dependent tenure..do not bind the overlords and reversioners. 1991 N. Rush Mating iv. 200 I analogized the mother committee to a town council. 2006 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Nov. 7/3 His tendency to analogize biology to information technology is arrogant and naive. 2. transitive. To represent by analogy; to express or parallel figuratively. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > render similar to [verb (transitive)] > make alike or analogous > represent by analogy analogize1654 1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. 150 The Stoicks, who suppose the Eye to supply the place of the Hand; the Aer to analogize the Staff. 1708 Reasonableness assenting Myst. Christianity 56 I know no better way, by which he can analogize Colours, than by the different Operations of Solids and Fluids. 1715 G. Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig.: Pt. II ii. 79 We have..Systems of material Bodies, diversely figured.., they..represent the Subject or Object of the Desire, which is Analogised by Attraction or Gravitation. 1860 Ladies' Compan. 17 162/1 Some minute detail of a landscape or other scene is seized upon, analogized, and so personified. 1928 Manitoba Free Press 2 Apr. 6/6 The reference to the scattering of sheep is analogized in the music. 1972 G. Friel Mr. Alfred M. A. xiv. 78 The daily frustrations of public transport analogised his fate. He didn't get on. 1988 R. Taruskin in N. Kenyon Authenticity & Early Music (1991) vi. 163 The tempo..forces attention away from the music's iconicity—that is, its capacity for analogizing human behaviour and feeling. 3. intransitive. To employ analogy; to speak or reason analogically. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > reason, ratiocinate [verb (intransitive)] > using analogy analogize1655 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > use figure of meaning [verb (intransitive)] > employ analogy analogize1655 1655 in S. Hartlib Reformed Common-wealth Bees 34 My Receipt would be contemptible, if I should analogize by proportion. 1745 D. Fordyce Dialogues conc. Educ. I. ix. 374 There is a wonderful disposition in our minds to analogize. 1789 E. Williams Antipœdobaptism Examined I. i. 69 I would examine, reason, moralize, analogize, and use all the means and methods which a gracious God has furnished me with. 1849 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 66 253 Try to render ‘State’ by any other word, and you will be put to it. You may analogise. 1881 G. MacDonald Mary Marston xliii Shall I analogise yet a little farther? 1962 D. R. ap Thomas tr. S. Mowinckel Psalms in Israel's Worship I. v. 168 This may then permit us to analogize with regard to the other great festivals. 2000 C. Geertz Local Knowl. ii. vii. 150 The content of that identity was confined to the most generalized of general capacities, hardly more than the ability to learn, feel, abstract, and analogize. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1646 |
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