rationallyadv.

1546 G. Joye Refut. Byshop Winchesters Derke Declar. f. xxvi.^v If a man shulde aske you howe, and wherein, the wisdom and godnes and light in god differe from these thinges in vs, after the kyndes of diffirences, really or rationally, genere, or specie &c. I thinke ye muste be compelled..to make suche an answer as shuld proue your wysedome but folishnes.

1592 A. Willet Synopsis Papismi iii. xix. 611 The persons differ one from another really, though not essentially. But the persons differ onely rationally or in respect from the essence of the Godhead.

1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 150 Here are foure termes rationally distinguished, but three really, viz. Law, Magistrate, People.

1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 577 In breaking a biquadratick, 'tis asserted that by leaving the Resolvend at liberty, it may be infinitely and rationally done, without the aid of the separating cubick æquation.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. iv. 223 If..the intelligible world be the more certain of the two, because rationally evident.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. xxvii. 121 To try how all the principles and precepts of Religion, morality, and common prudence, in several stories supported by one another, may be rationally erected.

1839 R. Dawes Nix's Mate II. xviii. 190 That there are really and truly such phenomena cognizable by a cultivated perception, is known by a few as rationally and certainly as are the ordinary facts in every branch of natural science.

1891 G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism i. 8 These reasons seem to him to be far more binding on the conscience than the precepts of a book of which the divine inspiration cannot be rationally proved.

1928 Musical Times 69 893/1 Nowadays when so much of the music produced is bloodless, dry, rationally constructed,..one somehow wants to offer a particularly cordial welcome to this music.

1980 D. Lodge How Far can you Go? (1981) iii. 104 I'm afraid I'd feel guilty even if I was rationally convinced there was nothing wrong with it.

2000 Econ. & Philos. 16 161 Both the modal theory and the structuralist one rationally reconstruct, rather than simply describe, the practice of economists.

1610 E. Gardiner Triall of Tabacco f. 20^v In the vse of Tabacco, and such hot medicines there must be a great discretion that all be done in due season, and rationally.

1659 B. Walton Considerator Considered 23 No such consectaries could be logically and rationally deduced from such premises.

1728 Philos. Trans. 1726–7 (Royal Soc.) 34 218 That antient author rationally concluded, from its having a seed, that the plant must come from that seed.

1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings xvi. 153 The sum of money aforesaid, which in a time of such distress..could not be rationally given.

1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. viii. 387 The honest expression of opinions conscientiously and rationally entertained.

1875 A. Trollope Way we live Now I. xvi. 98 Roger is so violent and prejudiced that one cannot get him to speak rationally.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 25 Apr. 13/1 The motionless Scot betrays neither by word nor look that he is wondering whether ten hours of bright sunshine would turn his Northern brethren into similar sober, civil, rationally-irrational holiday-makers.

1989 J. Aiken Blackground 52 He addressed her in a cold, constrained tone, being doubtful if she were of an age to reply rationally.

2000 ‘Bidisha’ Too Fast to Live vi. 161 He fears Janine rationally enough. She seems to be bullet-proof and fire-resistant.