rationably
English
editEtymology
editFrom rationable + -ly.
Adverb
editrationably (comparative more rationably, superlative most rationably)
- (now rare) Rationally, reasonably. [from 15th c.]
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section X:
- By this Hypothesis there is no one experiment of colour that I have yet met with, but may be, I conceive, very rationably solv'd, and perhaps, had I time to examine several particulars requisite to the demonstration of it, I might prove it more than probable […].