Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By analogy; from a similarity of relations.
- In biology, functionally as distinguished from structurally; in a physiological as distinguished from an anatomical way or manner: contrasted with homologically.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
analogical manner; in the manner of ananalogy .
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Examples
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The enemy is the barbarian, but he always used the word analogically; and the older barbarian before the walls comes off better than his modern counterpart for Belloc.
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"analogically" by how I feel when something produces tears in me.
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You never bothered reading Douglas/Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, p.271 under *mélit: "... while OIr mil gen. melo is an i-stem, analogically refashioned after the u-stem 'mead'."
My sweet honey bee 2010
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It's like having a family member on life support, artificially fed, and all the while knowing that the end is inevitable, that whatever life there is artificial, thus making it painful for the patient and for the family as well, because the longer, the more painful it gets, this is literally and analogically "agony".
Poll: Obama gaining support with key Clinton demographics 2008
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In The Ages, then, it is the grasping of nature as historical that analogically generates a psychoanalysis that exists only transferentially and not as a positivity.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Jews believe Rosh Hashanah represents either analogically or literally the creation of the World, or Universe.
Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009
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He isn't explicit whether he feels like those were added to multiple forms analogically or regularly.
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Clayton articulates his view of religious language: If one is to speak of the divine at all, one must speak analogically - even though all finite, human analogies are inadequate to the infinite God.
Archive 2009-05-01 James F. McGrath 2009
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At any rate, what gets lost on the analogically-challenged cdesign proponensists is that the human engineers in the analogy are superfluous in the biological realm.
Intelligent Design's Fleet of Engineers James F. McGrath 2009
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Spenser's hopes for a change towards this policy were set out obliquely or analogically within Faerie Queen, and directly in the prose piece, 'View of the Present State of Ireland.'
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