analogist

English

Etymology

analogy +‎ -ist

Noun

analogist (plural analogists)

  1. One who reasons from analogy, or represents by an analogy.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Last modified on 9 January 2012, at 21:10