adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an analogical manner.
† 1. Math. Proportionally. Obs.
1570. Dee, Math. Præf., 17. Chorographie … teacheth Analogically to describe a small portion or circuite of ground.
2. In accordance with, or by the use of, analogy.
[1635. Person, Varieties, I. 39. Analogice they may be said to be alike, that is, in some respect.]
1656. Cowley, Pind. Odes (1684), 67. Some new kind of Creature, called analogically by an old known name.
1667. H. More, Div. Dial., i. § 6 (1713), 14. Not only in Man, but analogically in the rest of Animals.
1732. Berkeley, Min. Philos., iv. § 21. A prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to his vessel.
1807. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., V. 276. Children learn to speak analogically in two years.
1822. Imison, Sc. & Art, I. 441. Reasoning analogically from the circumstances with which we are acquainted.
3. In an analogical sense, figuratively.
a. 1638. Mede, Wks., I. li. 292. An Offering therefore is taken properly or analogically.
1677. J. Webster, Witchcr., xvii. 344. [Syllables] may analogically, and by way of similitude, be said to be measured.
1843. Mill, Logic, I. ii. § 8. A name used analogically or metaphorically.
