Crossword-Solution: RATIOCINATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ratiocinative | a. | Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination; consisting in the comparison of propositions or facts, and the deduction of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a ratiocinative process. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “RATIOCINATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| relating to ratiocination, the process of exact thinking | 2 answers |
| pragmatic | 10 answers |
| Deductive | 12 answers |
| eristic | 58 answers |
| Relevant | 62 answers |
| Practical | 76 answers |
| Sober | 76 answers |
| expedient | 76 answers |
| Rational | 76 answers |
| Sound | 116 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with RATIOCINATIVE (5)
The argument--if we may apply so definite a name to a process which is continually forced to appeal to something that may perhaps be higher, but is certainly _other_ than the ratiocinative faculty--is founded partly on moral and partly on intellectual considerations.
But in addition to all the other excellencies of Hamlet's speech concerning the wassel-music--so finely revealing the predominant idealism, the ratiocinative meditativeness, of his character--it has the advantage of giving nature and probability to the impassioned continuity of the speech instantly directed to the Ghost.
They jumble together heaps of facts, the most wonder-striking they can get, which may indeed be said to confound the imagination by their variety; but there is no ratiocinative dependence between them, nor are they referred to demonstrative principles, which would render people knowledgeable, as well as knowing, of them.
Hence his undivided admiration of Pope and the French school, who cultivated exclusively the poetry of idea, where each moral problem is worked out with detailed, and often tedious, analysis; where all intense emotion is frittered away by a ratiocinative process.
His actual knowledge, however, had remained mere wretched patchwork, his logic came to an end wherever bold reliance upon the intuitive process was needed to supply missing links in the ratiocinative chain.