ratiocinative

English

WOTD – 27 January 2010

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ratiocinative (comparative more ratiocinative, superlative most ratiocinative)

Pertaining to or characterized by ratiocination, discursive thinking, or inferential knowledge.
- 1888, H.P. Blavatsky,The Secret Doctrine, Vol I, Theosophical University Press, page 1:
  Only those who realise how far Intuition soars above the tardy processes of ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception […]
- 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 80:
  […] bloodthirsty interest in the ratiocinative faculty […]

Pertaining to or characterized by ratiocination

ratiocinative