单词 | by analogy |
释义 | > as lemmasby analogy P1. by analogy: on the basis of a perceived or supposed correspondence or similarity (with something). ΚΠ 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 130 By analogie or like reason, (as the prophet rebuketh the priestes of the Iewes) he doeth reprehend also the Bishops, Elders, and Deacons of the Church for their negligence. 1669 R. Allestree 18 Serm. xv. 269 Those faculties..will..judge of things removed from all our notices; (such as Spiritual, Infinite, Eternal being is) and do it by principles gathered from the information of our Senses, and by analogy with things of another kind; corporeal finite things that are about us. 1749 Quincy's Pharmacopœia Officinalis (ed. 12) i. ii. xiii. 221/1 Hence, by analogy, other contagious diseases are likewise suspected to be animalcular. 1830 Harmonicon 8 377/1 The music..not having reached us, it is impossible to form a just idea of it, except by analogy with that of their successors. 1909 E. I. Lewis Elements Org. Chem. v. 41 By analogy with the ethyl alcohol reaction we might have expected a substance of the formula CH2. 1970 H. S. Dyer in A. C. Ornstein Accountability for Teachers (1973) iii. 48 A conceptualization that tends, by analogy, to equate the educational process with the type of engineering process that applies to industrial production. 2003 I. J. R. Aitchison & A. J. G. Hey Gauge Theories in Particle Physics I. (ed. 3) ii. 30 He built his theory by analogy with electromagnetism, postulating a new field of force with an associated new field quantum, analogous to the photon. < as lemmas |
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