ratiocinative
Example Sentences
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His mind is too full, too crowded, too ratiocinative, for easy and frugal utterance.
From Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned by Morley, Christopher
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
And the expressions we constantly use in our arguments—"analogy implies," "the cases are not parallel," "by parity of reasoning," "there is no similarity,"—show how constantly the idea of likeness underlies our ratiocinative processes.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert
“Well, how goes the ratiocinative process?’ was Brett’s greeting.
From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Tracy, Louis
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
