vbl. sb. [f. prec. + -ING1.] The perception of analogies, reasoning by analogy.
1832. J. Austin, Jurispr. (1879), II. 1040. The analogising of several analogous objects: that is to say, the considering the several objects as connected by the analogy between them.
1875. Emerson, Lett. & Soc. Aims, i. 18. All thinking is analogizing, and ’tis the use of life to learn metonymy.
