单词 | reasonist |
释义 | reasonistn. rare. A person who emphasizes reason, a rationalist. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [noun] > one who reasons > professed reasonist1610 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xxi. v. 843 But what say our great Reasonists [L. fidei reprehensores exactoresque rationis] vnto those ordinary things which are so common? 1732 D. Waterland Christianity vindicated against Infidelity 51 Such Persons are now commonly called Reasonists, and Rationalists, to distinguish them from true Reasoners, or rational Enquirers. 1875 E. R. Sproul Mystery 413 At just such a situation and period as this, to loose the bands of the reckless reasonists..meant little less than indiscriminate warfare. 2001 H.-G. Winter tr. W. Borchert in R. Jerome Conceptions Postwar German Masculinity iii. 208 Lower ranks [are] suspicious, turf-heads, reasonists, pacifists, water corpse aspirants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1610 |
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