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Example sentences for "analogous"

Lexicographically close words:
analogical; analogically; analogie; analogies; analogon; analogously; analogue; analogues; analogy; analyse
  1. In this respect it holds a position analogous to the argon of the atmosphere, and is capable of taking up the vibrations of those bodies to which it is related and which it invests.

  2. It is accredited by Reichenbach and other researchers with highly magnetic qualities, capable of producing in a suitable subject a state analogous to the ordinary "waking trance" of the hypnotists.

  3. In Minorca there are analogous structures, there popularly called navetas (ships), so distinct is the resemblance.

  4. He expected these sentiments from me personally, and he knew them to be analogous to those of our country.

  5. But most of all here, where Roman taste, genius, and magnificence, excite ideas analogous to yours at every step.

  6. The glare of pomp and pleasure is analogous to the motion of the blood; it absorbs all their affection and attention, they are torn from it as from the only good in this, world, and return to their home as to a place of exile and condemnation.

  7. When fiction," says Sir James Mackintosh, "represents a degree of ideal excellence superior to any virtue which is observed in real life, the effect is perfectly analogous to that of a model of ideal beauty in the fine arts.

  8. It merely contemplates a commission of boundary analogous to that appointed under the fifth article of the treaty of Ghent, and would in all probability prove equally unsatisfactory in practice.

  9. How a thought can find embodiment in words is nearly, though perhaps not quite, as mysterious as how an action can find embodiment in form, and appears to involve a somewhat analogous transformation and contradiction in terms.

  10. Like Goethe, Geoffroy was pre-eminently an anatomist, and, like the great German, he had early been impressed with the resemblances between the analogous organs of different classes of beings.

  11. In the Kindergarten children are treated on an analogous plan.

  12. In its morphology Lettic represents a later stage of development than Lithuanian, their mutual relationship being analogous to that between Old High German and Gothic.

  13. The true source of change in the material world must be analogous to what we are conscious of when we exert volition.

  14. If the surface is smooth the hand is free to follow its natural tendencies, and the results will be analogous in character to designs painted upon pottery, rocks, or skins.

  15. In literature it is possible to trace a similar double aim, separate from but analogous to the duality in speech that we shall have to examine in a later chapter.

  16. How thankful would hundreds of young men be, starving for poetry in England, if we had as a living tradition anything analogous to work upon!

  17. The usage in this respect seems analogous to that of the word Elohim.

  18. The Shekina, and all visible Divine appearances, having long been discontinued, the Jews seem not to have expected any recurrence of the like, or of analogous interpositions.

  19. I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips;" and of Daniel, in an analogous instance of his vision of the same glorified Person in the likeness of man, chap.

  20. Angels are said, likewise equivocally, to move, in a sense analogous to that in which they are said to be in a place.

  21. Our eyes, of course, are fixed upon the northern lands, where the Sequence grew from prose to verse, and where derivative or analogous forms of popular poetry developed also.

  22. From these melancholy events we may learn that the principles on which the moral world is governed are analogous to those which obtain in the physical.

  23. It is quite certain that from the 3rd century onward there existed in the Eastern Church an order of women, known as deaconesses, who filled a position analogous to that of deacons.

  24. This contract is known as a debenture-stockholders' trust deed, and is analogous in its provisions to the trust deed above described as used to secure debentures.

  25. The period during which the mother was regarded as unclean, in the full comprehension of that term, was seven days, as in the analogous case mentioned in xv.

  26. Unclean, under analogous circumstances, according to the law of xv.

  27. In all these cases, the prescription is the same as in analogous offences in the holy things of Jehovah.

  28. Nor is the insensibility confined to the body, but, as the leprosy extends, the mind is affected in an analogous manner.

  29. On an analogous principle we justify military authority in shooting the sentry found asleep at his post.

  30. But further, the Arab tradition of Nimrod's apotheosis, analogous to the mysterious and miraculous disappearance of Enoch (vide infra, p.

  31. An analogous argument with reference to Christian tradition was sketched in a lecture by Mr Edward Lucas, and published in 1862, "On the First Two Centuries of Christianity.

  32. Here seems a very analogous confused tradition of Adam and Nimrod, the Deluge and the Tower of Babel.

  33. But analogous to the double tradition of the Deluge in Assyria in the persons of Hoa and Nin; and, again, by a distinct channel of tradition in Xisuthrus (vide pp.

  34. In our search, therefore, for analogous forms on our own earth, we must leave out the craters and domes of the type furnished by the European volcanoes and their representatives abroad, and have recourse to others of a different type.

  35. And thus this analogous allusion, fairly argued, justifies the principle of Protection by restrictive laws, and utterly repudiates that of unguarded intercourse.

  36. Peel, on a recent occasion in the House of Commons, that the doctrine of Free Trade was analogous in principle to the law of gravitation which governs the great material world around us.

  37. There would be absolutely no general confusion analogous to that following on a sudden change to phonetic spelling or the metric system, because nothing would be displaced.

  38. If only there were some analogous subject on the literary side, to give a general grip of principles, uncomplicated by any arbitrary element, what a boon it would be!

  39. Somewhat analogous to Urdu, in that it is a literary language used by the educated classes for intercommunication throughout a polygot empire, is the Mandarin Chinese.

  40. In a regular language, just because everything goes by rule, problems can be set and worked out analogous to sums in arithmetic and riders in Euclid.

  41. De Bois had guessed that the pancreas must be considered not according to its position in the body, but according to its structure: that it was analogous to the salivary glands.

  42. He therefore established in dogs fistulae in chosen portions of the alimentary canal, analogous to the fistula which accident rendered so valuable in the case of Alexis St. Martin.

  43. The improved results in the tracheotomy cases of 1895 have also been shared by analogous cases in which the operation was not performed.

  44. The case is analogous when to a similar bad another bad is thought of as added.

  45. That the existential propositions and other analogous forms, which may be found, are all to be reckoned as subjectless propositions may serve to confirm what we have sought to show above, i.

  46. Analogous distinction in the sphere of pleasure and displeasure; criterion of the good 18 28.

  47. Far fewer have noticed an analogous distinction between the higher and lower forms of the feelings of pleasure and displeasure.

  48. How ridiculous would it appear if the following question were treated after an analogous fashion: “May I yield to a person who desires to bribe me?

  49. It is a pleasure of that higher form which is analogous to self-evidence in the sphere of judgment.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "analogous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agnate; akin; alike; analogous; coequal; coextensive; collateral; commensurate; comparable; comparative; complementary; concurrent; correlative; correspondent; corresponding; duplicate; equal; equidistant; equivalent; even; homologous; kindred; like; matching; parallel; paralleling; proportional; reciprocal; relative; similar; such; suchlike; tantamount; twin; undifferentiated; uniform


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    analogous case; analogous cases; analogous manner; analogous variation