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ratiocination|ˌræʃɪ-, ˌrætɪɒsɪˈneɪʃən|
Also 6 raciocin-, 7 ratiotin-.
[ad. L. ratiōcinātiōn-em, n. of action f. ratiōcināri: see prec. Cf. F. ratiocination (16th c. in Littré).]
1. The process of reasoning.
c1530L. Cox Rhet. (1899) 78 Raciocinacion is, that cometh of hope of any commodity, or to eschewe any discommodity. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1344 Without any discourse of reason, or ratiocination. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 2 There are some truths so plain and evident, and open, that need not any process of ratiocination to evidence or evince them. 1758Johnson Idler No. 31 ⁋11 He has observed in many trades the effect of close thought and just ratiocination. 1798Edgeworth Pract. Educ. (1811) II. 78 We resort to Geometry, as the most perfect, and the purest series of ratiocination which has been invented. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 55 He had not arrived at any one of the truths of his special gospel by the road of ratiocination.
2. With a and pl. An instance of this; also, a conclusion arrived at by reasoning. (Common in 17th c.)
c1620A. Hume Brit. Tongue ii. xii, The ratiocinative [conjunction] coples the partes of a ratiocination. 1644Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings 135 The Romanists must acknowledge [etc.]..or then they must foregoe these ratiocinations. 1759Johnson Rasselas xxii, Other men may amuse themselves with subtle definitions, or intricate ratiocinations. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India Pref. 11, I have no apology, therefore, to make, for those inductions, or those ratiocinations. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xx. 516 The one a cool, a frigid ratiocination; the other, an awful and terrible reality.
3. Power or habit of reasoning. rare.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. vii. §220 So infinite a Fancy, bound in by a most Logical ratiocination. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 285 For us, that have ratiocination..we know [what] we have to do here. 1798C. Smith Yng. Philos. III. 94 A lady of prodigious ratiocination as well as of profound information. |