English
Adjective
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- Pertaining to reasoning; rational.
- Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination; consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a ratiocinative process. (Webster's Dictionary)
Quotations
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1800s=1888
1888: Only those who realise how far Intuition soars above the tardy processes of ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception...— H.P. Blavatsky,The Secret Doctrine, Vol I, p.1 (Theosophical University Press)
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1900s=1957
1957: bloodthirsty interest in the ratiocinative faculty — Lawrence Durrell, Justine, p.80 (Faber)
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