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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Humour is of earlier growth than wit, and it is in accordance with this earlier growth that it has more affinity with the poetic tendencies, while wit is more nearly allied to the ratiocinative intellect.
From Mathilde Blind by George Eliot
Humor is of earlier growth than Wit, and it is in accordance with this earlier growth that it has more affinity with the poetic tendencies, while Wit is more nearly allied to the ratiocinative intellect.
From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Nathan Sheppard
The ratiocinative faculty, then, as found in individuals, is not a general instrument of knowledge, but has its province, or is what may be called departmental.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
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
The faculty of computing is among the very last of the psychical habitudes acquired by man, and is an evidence of high ratiocinative ability.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir
