analogist

See also: analōgist

English

Etymology

analogy +‎ -ist

Noun

analogist (plural analogists)

  1. One who reasons from analogy, or represents by an analogy.
    • 1654, John Tombes, Anti-pædobaptism:
      those analogists that determine from the Commands about the Mosaical Rites and usages what must be done or may not be done about the meer positive worship and Church-order of the New Testament

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for analogist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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