a. Analogous. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Analogous. ] Of or belonging to analogy. Geo. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Founded on, or of the nature of, analogy; expressing or implying analogy. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a country which has sent out colonies is termed the mother country, the expression is analogical. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having analogy; analogous. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an analogical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

A prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being analogical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; course of reasoning, fr. &unr_; to think over, to calculate ] 1. (Logic) an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To employ, or reason by, analogy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Analogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. analogous, Gr. &unr_; according to a due ratio, proportionate; &unr_; + &unr_; ratio, proportion. See Logic. ] Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Analogous tendencies in arts and manners. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Correspondent; similar; like. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- A*nal"o gous*ly, adv. -- A*nal"o*gous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. &unr_;, fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The vexatious tyranny of the individual despot meets its analogue in the insolent tyranny of the many. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philol.) A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin “pater” is the analogue of the English “father.” [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Nat. Hist.) (a) An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations. (b) A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group. (c) A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a computer that represents information by continuously variable quantities (e.g., positions or voltages). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n.; pl. Analogies [ L. analogia, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;: cf. F. analogie. See Analogous. ] 1. A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Followed by between, to, or with; as, there is an analogy between these objects, or one thing has an analogy to or with another. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Analogy is very commonly used to denote similarity or essential resemblance; but its specific meaning is a similarity of relations, and in this consists the difference between the argument from example and that from analogy. In the former, we argue from the mere similarity of two things; in the latter, from the similarity of their relations. Karslake. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Geom.) Proportion; equality of ratios. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Gram.) Conformity of words to the genius, structure, or general rules of a language; similarity of origin, inflection, or principle of pronunciation, and the like, as opposed to anomaly. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]