rationable
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From ration + -able.[1] Piecewise doublet of reasonable.
Adjective
[edit]rationable (not comparable)
- Suitable for being rationed.
- 2002, Kevin Smith, Conflict Over Convoys:
- Stocks fell 60 percent in two months to 35000 tons of rationable meat.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English racionable, a learned borrowing from Classical Latin ratiōnābilis.[2] Doublet of reasonable.
Adjective
[edit]rationable (comparative more rationable, superlative most rationable)
- (now rare) Synonym of rational or reasonable.
- 1952 December, William Ernest Hocking, “Problems of World Order in the Light of Recent Philosophical Discussion”, in The American Political Science Review, volume XLVI, number 4, Menasha, Wis.: George Banta Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1125:
- Instinctive drives are, in this sense, rationable; they are admitted, by the mature individual, to influence on his behavior only on condition of contributing to the going program of action.
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “rationable, adj.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
- ^ “rationable, adj.1”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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