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
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
The ratiocinative faculties proceed by division and analysis, by questioning, and are slow and gradual in their movement; they take aid from the other faculties, those of the instinctus naturalis being always the final test.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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
Still, he tried to explain the problem, for he was of an eminently ratiocinative temper.
From The Aspirations of Jean Servien by France, Anatole
