c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 300 Surmountyng in prudence, she was wondrely resoned.

?1521 J. Fisher Serm. agayn Luther sig. Dvi^v These heretykes, all be it they..were fell wytte mend, & depely resoned..yet were they disceyued.

1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. x. 297 I do generally distinguish of two sorts of opinions in all men, Inclination-opinions, and Reason'd-opinions.

1792 B. Boothby Observ. Appeal from New to Old Whigs 18 They do not give a reasoned opinion, but an involuntary decision.

1815 J. C. Hobhouse Substance Lett. (1816) I. 304 The official letter of Lord Clancarty..which is a sort of renewed and reasoned declaration.

1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. viii. §73 254 All reasoned-out conclusions whatever, must rest on some postulate.

1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. ii. 82 He [sc. Fielding] prefers nature to law, instinct to reasoned action.

1904 E. F. Benson Challoners vii. 146 He would sooner have mated her with a thief or an adulterer..than with a reasoned atheist.

1963 Amer. Lit. 35 245 Emerson's aesthetics were deeply reasoned and powerfully presented to his contemporaries.

1997 Daily Tel. 25 July 7/7 A ‘reasoned opinion’ from the European Commission—the prelude to legal proceedings—accused the United Kingdom of creating a ‘severe distortion’ of competition across Europe.

1904 Proc. Classical Assoc. 2 46 He thought it was time that, with due humility, they should welcome the second idea and move a ‘reasoned amendment’ to the first.

1907 W. S. Churchill Ld. Randolph Churchill (ed. 2) 728 To this a reasoned amendment was moved, with the concurrence of the Government, by a private member from the Unionist benches, setting forth the inexpediency at that time of introducing any large constitutional change in Ireland.

1975 Daily Tel. 23 July 1 The Conservative ‘reasoned amendment’..supported the Government's belated commitment to reduce the disastrous rate of inflation.

1992 Mod. Law Rev. 55 88 A total of 13 Bills since 1966..were opposed on Second Reading either by a straightforward motion or a reasoned amendment.

1887 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 9 311 It would seem to be an interesting task for someone to undertake to form a corolla of these various proofs and to construct a reasoned bibliography, a catalogue raisonnée, of this one single theorem.

1958 Listener 11 Sept. 392/3 The fourth essay..is accompanied by a reasoned bibliography of formidable fullness.

1993 Classical Rev. 43 165 Volume 3 will contain an account of scholarly views on Empedocles and a reasoned bibliography.

1836 A. Walker Beauty in Woman 281 The Greeks, either intuitively or reasonedly, distinguished the three species of beauty as to the Figure.

1960 R. Peck et al. Psychol. Char. Devel. viii. 160 By ten he was already showing clear signs of being one of the most purposefully and reasonedly ethical children in his age group.

1984 Feminist Rev. 18 118 Letters ranging from the highly complimentary through the reasonedly critical to the loony and outright obscene.