ratiocinate

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We do not ratiocinate, we run.

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  1. intransitive verb To reason methodically and logically.

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  • We do not ratiocinate, we run. —  Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
  • You men theorize, ratiocinate, declaim, dogmatize about abstract propositions, and finally get your feet tangled and stumble over facts right under your noses, that women would never fail to pick up and put aside. —  Infelice
  • If one is struck by the magnificence of the great towns of the Continent, one should ratiocinate, and conclude that a major characteristic of the great towns of England is their shabby and higgledy-piggledy slovenliness. —  The Author's Craft
  • But I give you warning -- Stasie may weep and Henri ratiocinate -- it will not serve you twice. —  Merry Men
  • But don't ratiocinate with me -- I cannot bear it. —  Merry Men
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin ratiōcinārī, ratiōcināt-, from ratiō, calculation; see ratio.

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  1. from Latin ratiocinatus, past participle of ratiocinari (later Italian raziocinare =Spanish Portuguese raciocinar =F. ratiociner), reckon, compute, calculate, consider, deliberate, meditate, reason, argue (cf. ratiocinium, a reckoning, a computation, later Italian raziocinio =Spanish Portuguese raciocinio, reasoning), from ratio (n-), reckoning, reason: see ratio, reason.
  2. from Latin ratiocinatus, past participle of ratiocinari. reason: see the verb.
 

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