单词 | ratiocinative |
释义 | ratiocinativeadj. Of, characterized by, or expressive of, ratiocination; given to ratiocination. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [adjective] reasoningc1454 dianoetical1570 discoursing1571 discoursory1581 ratiocinative1585 discoursive1588 discursive1595 discoursative1604 discursory1614 logistic1638 logistical1644 discussive1645 rationative1650 dianoetic1677 reasoned1684 ratiocinatory1728 raisonné1777 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > conjunction > [adjective] > giving a reason rationalc1450 rendering1571 ratiocinative1585 rationative1650 1585 tr. P. de La Ramée Lat. Gram. ii. viii. 94 A Coniunction..is either enunciative or ratiocinative. 1612 J. Boys Autumne Part 39 All the faculties of thy soule, vegetatiue, sensitiue, ratiocinatiue. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 51 The conclusion is attained..without any thing of ratiocinative process. 1727 R. Roach Imperial Standard Messiah Triumphant 8 Whoever hope for the Recovery of this Power and divine Converse, must bring their Active Power of the ratiocinative Faculty into a Resignation and Stilness. 1780 F. Okely tr. H. Engelbrecht Divine Visions I. iv. 81 Neither do ye content yourselves with a bare ratiocinative Admiration. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 82 The whole gamut of eloquence from the ratiocinative to the declamatory. 1884 Manch. Examiner 16 Oct. 4/7 The machinery of the ratiocinative logician..has no place in his speeches. 1912 J. S. Black & G. Chrystal Life W. R. Smith vi. 237 Libels were drawn up in the old ratiocinative form, bristling with words of style and verbosities of all kinds. 1936 J. Gunther Inside Europe ii. 40 This would seem a dubious interpretation because Hitler's mind is not ratiocinative in the least: he is a man of passion, of instinct, not of reason. 1991 R. Jenkins Life at Centre vi. 218 The disadvantage of Crosland's impressively ratiocinative progress towards a view was that when..he had come out of the dark the issue had often resolved itself. 1995 J. Batten Mind over Murder i. 36 Stewart gave the notebook's inks the sort of ratiocinative scrutiny that would have sent Sherlock Holmes to his violin..in envy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1585 |
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