ratiocination

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And then there was silence, deep and impressive, while everybody got his "ratiocinating apparatus," as the Parson called it, to work.

From A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism by Sinclair, Upton

Higher Manas sends out a Ray, Lower Manas, which works in and through the human brain, functioning there as brain-consciousness, as the ratiocinating intelligence.

From Death—and After? by Besant, Annie Wood

To see facts, not to argue or raisonniren, was what life meant for him; and I think he often positively loathed the ratiocinating type of mind.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

Under this revelation of personality acting in utter disregard of the person—of any wish or will of the ratiocinating individual—she rested breathless.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

He was always ratiocinating in his own mind, and therefore sometimes seemed incoherent to the partial observer.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson