Category:Ratiocinative

Ra`ti*oc"i*na*tive, a. Etym: [l. ratiocinativus.]

Defn: characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination; consisting in The comparison of proportions or facts, and the deduction of Inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a ratiocinative Process. The ratiocinative meditativeness of his character. Coleridge.