v. [f. ANALOGY + -IZE. Perh. immediately from Fr. analogiser (in Cotgr., 1611), f. same elements.]
1. intr. To employ analogy; to speak or reason analogically; (orig.) by proportion or ratio.
1655. Lett., in Hartlib, Ref. Commonw. Bees, 34. My Receipt would be contemptible, if I should analogize by proportion.
1849. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., LXVI. 253. Try to render ‘State’ by any other word, and you will be put to it. You may analogise.
1881. G. Macdonald, M. Marston, xliii. Shall I analogise yet a little farther?
2. trans. To represent by analogy, to figure.
1715. G. Cheyne, Philos. Princ. Relig., II. 78–9 (J.). We have … Systems of material Bodies, diversely figured…: they admirably represent the Subject or Object of the Desire, which is Analogised by Attraction or Gravitation.
3. trans. To make, or show to be, analogous.
1802. E. Palmer, Princ. Nature, vi. (1826), 52. We cannot analogize these facts with the planetary system.
4. intr. (for refl.) To show itself analogous, to be in general harmony.
1733. Cheyne, Eng. Mal., I. x. § 2 (1734), 91. Light … where it finds proper Organs, concurs and analogises in these Organs, with the established Laws of Bodies.
1872. F. Hall, False Philol., 66. Exceptions, so called … analogize with special providences in the mundane order.
