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Example sentences for "analogy"

Lexicographically close words:
analogon; analogous; analogously; analogue; analogues; analyse; analysed; analyser; analyses; analysing
  1. Else why adopt the word lepores, (obviously from lepus,) but from some subtle analogy between the delicate flavor of the latter, and the finer relishes of wit in what we most poorly translate pleasantries.

  2. To take away the ideal basis of nature, yet construe it by the analogy of organic growth, will be for ever felt as a contradiction.

  3. I cannot say I perceived any analogy to it.

  4. I rather take them to have been in Dante's mind 'quasi'-allegorical, or conceived in analogy to pure allegory.

  5. The analogy between this clock and the electric clock of the present day is very remarkable.

  6. But the most startling result of the combined magnetic observations is the discovery of marked perturbations recurring at intervals of ten years; a period which seemed to have no analogy to any thing in the universe, but which M.

  7. Now, this has greater analogy with the motion of the earth than any thing else.

  8. One word is all that I need say about the last point of analogy and contrast here--the serene passage into rest: 'When he had said this he fell asleep.

  9. There was nothing beyond likelihood and analogy to guide me in what I saw, and from some subsequent observations I have reason to think that these antics are common to both sexes.

  10. The analogy is not quite perfect, unless we could show that actual war, for instance, had sometimes passed into a dance.

  11. I aspire to show that the analogy applies just as surely to the young fellow and his faith.

  12. There can be only one reason for this inartistic mixture of analogy and antithesis.

  13. The effort, however, to draw an analogy between Ireland in her relations with Great Britain, and the relations existing between the three Dominions and the United Kingdom is most misleading.

  14. The conditions under which a pupil begins the study of German in a high school and the study of English composition are entirely dissimilar; and a conclusion based upon a fancied analogy is worthless.

  15. What value is there in an analogy between experimental sciences and imitative arts?

  16. What is the use of the analogy in section 13?

  17. But there is no analogy between the two cases.

  18. That analogy will not help the third section of this bill.

  19. If, then, we may follow the analogy from our highest senses, we seem to get a clear explanation of the mystery of insect discrimination.

  20. Without this "Knowledge of God," we can see by analogy on the Organic Plane that Everlasting Life is impossible--we are as weeds and shall be rooted out.

  21. But let us carry this one step further: can we, by our analogy of Matter praying, understand why "the knowledge of God is Everlasting Life"?

  22. Its course completes the analogy between the rivers and plains on each side, and the supposed disappearance of the channel of the Lachlan seemed consequently as doubtful as the mysterious termination of the Macquarie.

  23. There will be time enough to trace out the analogy while waiting the summons to breakfast.

  24. From a military point of view, weather and climate bear a certain analogy to topography.

  25. At first sight, that event might seem to separate us from all before it in a way to which there is no analogy in the history either of our own or of kindred lands.

  26. There is this analogy between the customs of the Lacedaemonians and the Cretans, the Helots cultivate the grounds [1272a] for the one, the domestic slaves for the other.

  27. An analogy will make the meaning of this clear.

  28. How from analogy can anyone argue in favor of the doctrine that an impartial judge who had started them in the race of life unfairly matched, would put the same prize before all, none of the starters being handicapped?

  29. He says: "Nor can we find anything throughout the whole analogy of nature, to afford us even the slightest presumption that animals ever lose their living powers.

  30. It is perfectly in accordance with the argument, and with the analogy of cause and effect, that the effect may remain after the cause had ceased to exist.

  31. There is no sort of analogy between a finite artificer arranging a finite mechanism and an alleged divine creator originating all existence.

  32. Others, primarily Europeans, have pointed out the analogy between the hypnotic state of animals and man.

  33. Pavlov, however, believed that there was an analogy between sleep and hypnosis in that each involved cerebral inhibition.

  34. In some of the lower Crustacea, it is known, that the ova escape by rupturing the ovisacs formed by the protruded ovarian tubes, and this is the nearest analogy with which I am acquainted.

  35. The protrusion of the egg-bearing pouches in Cyclops and its kindred genera, outside the body, offers a feeble analogy with what takes place in Cirripedes.

  36. From the state of the specimen, it was quite impossible to ascertain whether the individual here described was an hermaphrodite or female; from the analogy of its nearest congener, S.

  37. The capitulum consists of fourteen valves, including from analogy a rostrum.

  38. For any analogy to the existence of males, complemental to hermaphrodites, we must look to the vegetable kingdom.

  39. I was not able to perceive that this eye consisted of two eyes united, which the analogy of other Cirripedes makes me suppose probable, although in the ordinary and hermaphrodite Ibla quadrivalvis, the eye also appeared single.

  40. It is hardly wise to press the analogy so far, unless one is prepared to explain the amber in the same way.

  41. See also Gaea East of the Sun and West of the Moon, story of; analogy of incident, C.

  42. Darkness, 3, 4 Daughter of the Skies, story of; analogy of incident, C.

  43. At the same time, this geometrical analogy prevents us from assuming that the further identification of Being with Thought excluded a concrete and almost material conception of the Ens.

  44. In them, therefore, we find illustrated the theory which explains mythology by the analogy of poetry.

  45. The analogy between the history of a race so undisturbed in its development as the Greek, and the life of a man, is not altogether fanciful.

  46. The analogy which he selects is drawn from the behavior of Bacchantes under the influence of Dionysus.

  47. But this is true only if we take the word analogy in its loosest sense for any kind of resemblance.

  48. From these conditions it will be seen that we cannot conclude with any high degree of probability from analogy alone.

  49. The word Analogy was appropriated by Mill, in accordance with the usage of the eighteenth century, to designate a ground of inference distinct from that on which we proceed in extending a law, empirical or scientific, to a new case.

  50. But even in common speech, there is a trace of the original meaning: generally when we speak of analogy we have in our minds more than one pair of things, and what we call the analogy is some resemblance between the different pairs.

  51. In a strict logical sense, however, as defined by Mill, sanctioned by the previous usage of Butler and Kant, analogy means more than a resemblance of relations.

  52. The argument from analogy is sometimes said to range through all degrees of probability from certainty to zero.

  53. This is probably what Whately had in view when he defined analogy as "resemblance of relations".

  54. If the property inferred is known or presumed to be a concomitant of one or more of the points of resemblance, any argument from analogy is superfluous.

  55. We have a number of Sufi words with a strictly Sufi meaning; but it would not be wise to strain the analogy of earthly love too far and say that everything that Hafiz wrote was spiritual.

  56. The fact that he, and all other Sufi poets, use as an analogy the love between man and woman renders the spiritual meaning extremely vague.

  57. It is not mentioned as miliaria, but is conjectured to have been so on the analogy of cohorts II and III.

  58. In determining the position of the holders of these posts among the immunes we are supported by the analogy of the Equites Singulares Imperatoris, a corps modelled upon and to a certain extent recruited from the auxiliary cavalry.

  59. Possibly a Gallic regiment on the analogy of the Ala Gallorum Flaviana.

  60. Moreover, if there existed cohorts of slingers with this distinctive uniform we should expect to find cohortes funditorum or libritorum on the analogy of the cohortes sagittariorum.

  61. Restored from the ‘Cohors I Augusta Nervia’ … of the diploma on the analogy of the Cohors II Augusta Nervia Pacensis M.

  62. The analogy of the Equites Singulares also suggests that we may include the bucinator and tubicen among the immunes of the ala,[100] and we have also to add the medicus, whose somewhat exceptional position is discussed later.

  63. The signifer,[105] lastly, can hardly have had a position inferior to that of the vexillarius or tesserarius, and would indeed rank higher than the latter if the analogy of the legions holds good.

  64. Observe the very close analogy which this instrument bears to the name of Shakespeare.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "analogy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accordance; affinity; agreement; alignment; allegory; alliance; alternate; alternative; analogy; approach; approximation; assimilation; backup; balancing; change; changeling; closeness; community; comparison; concurrence; conformity; confrontation; contrast; copy; correlation; correspondence; counterfeit; deputy; double; dummy; equal; equality; equivalent; exchange; fake; ghost; identity; imitation; likeness; makeshift; matching; metaphor; nearness; opposing; opposition; parallel; parallelism; parity; personnel; phony; proportion; proxy; relation; relief; replacement; representative; resemblance; reserves; ringer; sameness; secondary; semblance; sign; similarity; simile; similitude; simulation; spare; speech; sub; substitute; substitution; surrogate; symbol; token; understudy; vicar