ratiocinate
verb (used without object)
to reason; carry on a process of reasoning.
ratiocinative
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a word derived from
ratiocinate.
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a word derived from
ratiocination.
ratiocinationnounthe process of logical reasoning.
Example Sentences
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We grant the “poppet;” we concede the “chickabiddy;” and then sternly inquire if an excess of loyalty is to impugn the reason of the most ratiocinative editor?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 by Various
His actual knowledge, however, had remained mere wretched patchwork, his logic came to an end wherever bold reliance upon the intuitive process was needed to supply missing links in the ratiocinative chain.
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Ludwig Lewisohn
The ratiocinative coples the partes of a ratiocination, and it either inferres the conclusion or the reason.
From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
In the childhood of those sciences the imagination opened a way, and furnished materials, on which the ratiocinative powers in a maturer state operated with success.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dianoetic, dī-a-nō-et′ik, adj. capable of thought, thinking: belonging to the ratiocinative faculties of the mind.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
