ratiocinative
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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɹæʃ.ɪˈɑ.səˌneɪ.tɪv/
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Adjective edit
ratiocinative (comparative more ratiocinative, superlative most ratiocinative)
- Pertaining to or characterized by ratiocination, discursive thinking, or inferential knowledge.
- 1888, H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, volume I, Theosophical University Press, page 1:
- Only those who realise how far Intuition soars above the tardy processes of ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception […]
- 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 80:
- […] bloodthirsty interest in the ratiocinative faculty […]
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 225:
- If a person is developed merely in an intellectual, ratiocinative way, then he will be a contradictory mix of cleverness and savagery.
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Pertaining to or characterized by ratiocination
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ratiocinative
Latin edit
Adjective edit
ratiōcinātīve