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- verb Present participle of
ratiocinate .
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Examples
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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Ray, Lower Manas, which works in and through the human brain, functioning there as brain-consciousness, as the ratiocinating intelligence.
Death—and After? Annie Wood Besant 1890
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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.
Memories and Studies William James 1876
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He was _always_ ratiocinating in his own mind, and therefore sometimes seemed incoherent to the partial observer.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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