ratiocinative
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The ratiocinative faculty, then, as found in individuals, is not a general instrument of knowledge, but has its province, or is what may be called departmental.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry
Newton had a mind predominantly ratiocinative: its movement was spontaneously towards the abstract relations of things.
From The Principles of Success in Literature by Lewes, George Henry
In the childhood of those sciences the imagination opened a way, and furnished materials, on which the ratiocinative powers in a maturer state operated with success.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
The faculty of computing is among the very last of the psychical habitudes acquired by man, and is an evidence of high ratiocinative ability.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James
Humour is of earlier growth than wit, and it is in accordance with this earlier growth that it has more affinity with the poetic tendencies, while wit is more nearly allied to the ratiocinative intellect.
From Mathilde Blind by Eliot, George
