Analogist
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Someone who makes an analogy, or represents something using an analogy.
"those analogists that determine from the Commands about the Mosaical Rites and usages what must be done or may not be done about the meer positive worship and Church-order of the New Testament"
- 2 someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy wordnet
- 3 An adherent of analogism.
"The analogist does not think that a bee, a flower and a human are the same in body nor in soul, but presupposes that all of them are affected by processes that are not only external to them, but frame and enable their possibilities of daily experience."
- 1 Pertaining to analogism, as opposed to anomalism.
- 2 Pertaining to analogism.
"This is what characterises his 'analogist' mode, and indeed, he takes China as a paradigmatic example of an analogist society,"
Example
More examples"those analogists that determine from the Commands about the Mosaical Rites and usages what must be done or may not be done about the meer positive worship and Church-order of the New Testament"
Etymology
From analogy + -ist.
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