derationalizev.
/diːˈraʃənəlʌɪz/ To deprive of reason.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > deprive of reason [verb (transitive)]
disrationate1668
derationalize1871
irrationalize1895
1871 C. Hodge Systematic Theol. I. i. iii. 279 To call upon men to worship gravitation..is to call upon them to derationalize themselves.
1879 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 129 Further considerations..may supervene and make relative or derationalise a mass of thought.
Derivatives
derationaliˈzation n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [noun] > removal of reason
derationalization1938
1938 H. Read Poetry & Anarchism iv. 48 The dialectical method..leaves us with an art which is not so much art as an instrument of derationalization.
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