ratiocinative

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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

Dianoetic, dī-a-nō-et′ik, adj. capable of thought, thinking: belonging to the ratiocinative faculties of the mind.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Humor 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 The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan

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

This Reason is not the ratiocinative faculty in man which conditions him as a duality; it is rather more as a Divine Monad, as Pure Reason, or that which can hold all opposites in one.

From The Gnostic Crucifixion by Mead, G. R. S.