ratiocinative
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And of it ther be tuoe sortes, the one enunciative, and the other ratiocinative.
From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin
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
Is it not clear, then, that inferences must always be either intuitive or ratiocinative; and is it not strange that Hume should deny that they ever are so?
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas
Dryden’s natural powers, as all his critics have remarked, lay not so much in the imaginative as in the didactic, the declamatory, and the ratiocinative.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David
It would be absurd to say that the ratiocinative, literal mind is higher than the ideal.
From Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs by Gates, William