analeptic, analeptick

& s. [In Fr. an a lept i que; from Gr. ἀναληπτικός ( analēptikos ).] 1. As adjective : Restorative. "Analeptick medicines cherish the nerves and renew the spirits and strength."-Quincy. Analeptic Tonics: In Garrod's cla ification of medicines, the same as blood tonics or blood restoratives (q. v.). 2. As subst .: A medicine designed to impart tone to the system, restoring flesh, strength, and cheerfulne after sickne or weakne from whatever cause; a restorative. IMG:content-0492.png:[blocks in formation] "There is placed the minerals between the inanimate and vegetable province, participating something analogical to either."-Hale: Origin of Mankind. Dr. Johnson draws the following distinction between the words analogous and analogical: " Analogous signifies having relation, and analogical having the quality of representing relation." 2. Logic and Ordinary Lang. Pertaining to analogy; pertaining to resemblances of any kind, on which may be founded reasoning falling short of the conclusivene po e ed by induction. [ANALOGY, INDUCTION.] "The cases in which analogical evidence affords in itself any very high degree of probability are, as we have just observed, only those in which the resemblance is very close and extensive." John Stuart Mill: Logic, 2nd ed. (1846), vol. ii, ch. xx., p. 105. 3. Biol . Pertaining to two animals, two plants, or even an animal and a plant, which in certain respects resemble each other; the similarity, however, being one of analogy only, and not of affinity. [ANALOGY, AFFINITY.] "All analogical resemblances, as of a whale to a fish."-Darwin: Descent of Man, vol. i, pt. i., ch. vii., p. 230. ăn-a-log-i-cal-lỹ, adv. [Eng. analogical; -ly.] In an analogical manner. we are often obliged to use these words analogically to expre other powers of the mind which are of a very different nature."-Reid: Inquiry into the Human Mind , c. 7. ăn-a-log-i-cal-ne , s . [Eng. analogical ; -ne .] The quality of being analogical; fitne to be applied for the illustration of some analogy. *ạn-al-og-ie, s. [ANALOGY.]