Definition of "analogist" [a•nal•o•gist]

• One who looks for or reasons from analogies: "Learning more from books than from life, he was an analogist” ( Times Literary Supplement). (noun)

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• "(I'm not the best sports analogist you will ever find - if you have a better one, please, feel free)."
• "These are not the dreams of a few poets, here and there, but man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects."
• "I am also an avowed and unrepentant analogist when it comes to reading the Bible."