Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, marked by, or skilled in methodical and logical reasoning. synonym: logical.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of reasoning; pertaining to or connected with the act of reasoning. The word is misused by sorne modern writers. See
ratiocination , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination; consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to or characterized by
ratiocination ,discursive thinking, orinferential knowledge.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective based on exact thinking
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Examples
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When I use the word ratiocinative, it's because it is the correct word for the job.
All About Language ~ The Lost Art of English gailcarriger 2009
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When I use the word ratiocinative, it's because it is the correct word for the job.
All About Language ~ The Lost Art of English gailcarriger 2009
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When I use the word ratiocinative, it's because it is the correct word for the job.
All About Language ~ The Lost Art of English gailcarriger 2009
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The process is often described as a ratiocinative or inferential process, and from this standpoint is contrasted with deductive reasoning.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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At first, in ratiocinative processes, its premises must cover little ground and be fully elaborated, and in the course of the deduction or induction there can be no omission of the smallest detail.
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The introspective, contemplative, ratiocinative, philosophic aspect of Holmes gets obscured as Ritchie turns him into a 21st-century man of action in the mould of Indiana Jones and Daniel Craig's ultra-tough James Bond.
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Similarly, the characters in Henry James's fiction, which most readers find quite convincing even when the fictions themselves are judged to be somewhat short on dramatic action, share the obsessed and ratiocinative qualties of James's style.
Style in Fiction 2009
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Poe is his own great chain of being, his own Palace of Memory stalked by the Red Death, or imploding into the tarn as it may be, which is itself a code to ratiocinative processes.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2009
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Poe is his own great chain of being, his own Palace of Memory stalked by the Red Death, or imploding into the tarn as it may be, which is itself a code to ratiocinative processes.
princeofcairo: Two Hundred Circling Years princeofcairo 2009
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Most of us, I think, read whodunits for the pleasure of following a ratiocinative process, not to be left wondering which fictional character did what to whom; the real world offers far more interesting imponderables than that.
Touch of Evil 2006
hernesheir commented on the word ratiocinative
Century Dictionary: "The word is misused by sorne modern writers."
July 6, 2010
ry commented on the word ratiocinative
sorne would be an OCRtifact or possibly just a typo
January 9, 2013