rationalizedadj.

1777 Panegyrical Ess. 1 Not being yet convinced of all the advantages of Suicide—(owing to the unfortunate delay of a much expected Posthumous Tract (1), the legacy of an eminent compound of rarified and rationalized matter (2), lately deceased.)

1794 R. Jephson Confessions J. B. Couteau I. xiii. 250 I strolled with a disengaged air to the edifice erected to rationalized incontinence.

1845 New Englander July 466/1 Having loaded them down with these violent explanations, he offers them as the rationalized version of the miraculous.

1896 Spectator 11 Apr. 519 Swift's grim conceptions of animalized man and rationalized animals.

1919 W. H. Smyth in Industr. Management Mar. 211/2 For this unique experiment in rationalized Industrial Democracy I have coined the term ‘technocracy’.

1936 K. Burke Let. 27 Feb. (1988) 210 Let MC first convert his assertion of ‘fundamental opposition’ into a completely rationalized account.

1983 C. Ozick Art & Ardor (1984) 187 Bloom's four theorizing volumes vault beyond criticism toward their destination—which is a long theophanous prose-poem, a rationalized version of Blake's heroic Prophetic Books.

2002 A. Feenberg Transforming Technol. (rev. ed.) iii. 71 These hegemonies construct ‘metapowers’, such as corporations and states, which mobilize the available microtechniques through a rationalized system of domination.

1933 Bull. National Res. Council No. 93. 103 Like the Giorgi system, it could be adopted either unrationalized or rationalized.

1968 M. S. Livingston Particle Physics xii. 208 In the rationalized mks system of electromagnetic units, charge becomes a fourth fundamental quantity.

1973 J. Yarwood Electr. & Magn. xvi. 608 The rationalised mksA units in electricity form a part of the wider SI system of units.

1990 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 431 494 In MKS rationalized units Maxwell's equations are [etc.].