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derationalize, v.|diːˈræʃənəlaɪz|
[f. de- II. 1 + rationalize v.]
To deprive of reason. So derationaliˈzation.
1871C. Hodge Systematic Theol. I. i. iii. 279 To call upon men to worship gravitation..is to call upon them to derationalize themselves. 1879W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 129 Further considerations..may supervene and make relative or derationalise a mass of thought. 1938H. Read Poetry & Anarchism iv. 48 The dialectical method..leaves us with an art which is not so much art as an instrument of derationalization. |