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- English Word Ratiocinatory Definition Ratiocinative.
- English Word Ration Definition A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.
- English Word Ration Definition Hence, a certain portion or fixed amount dealt out; an allowance; an allotment.
- English Word Ration Definition To supply with rations, as a regiment.
- English Word Rational Definition Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.
- English Word Rational Definition Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning.
- English Word Rational Definition Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man.
- English Word Rational Definition Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.
- English Word Rational Definition A rational being.
- English Word Rationale Definition An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles themselves.
- English Word Rationalism Definition The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.
- English Word Rationalism Definition The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism.
- English Word Rationalist Definition One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.
- English Word Rationalistic Definition Alt. of Rationalistical
- English Word Rationalistical Definition Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism.
- English Word Rationality Definition The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.
- English Word Rationalization Definition The act or process of rationalizing.
- English Word Rationalize Definition To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.
- English Word Rationalize Definition To interpret in the manner of a rationalist.
- English Word Rationalize Definition To form a rational conception of.
- English Word Rationalize Definition To render rational; to free from radical signs or quantities.
- English Word Rationalize Definition To use, and rely on, reason in forming a theory, belief, etc., especially in matters of religion: to accord with the principles of rationalism.
- English Word Rationally Definition In a rational manner.
- English Word Rationalness Definition The quality or state of being rational; rationality.
- English Word Ratitae Definition An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples.
- English Word Ratitate Definition Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.
- English Word Ratite Definition Of or pertaining to the Ratitae.
- English Word Ratite Definition One of the Ratitae.
- English Word Ratlines Definition Alt. of Ratlins
- English Word Ratlins Definition The small transverse ropes attached to the shrouds and forming the steps of a rope ladder.