Definition of ratiocinate in English:

verb

• Form judgements by a process of logic; reason.

  ‘a tendency to ratiocinate in isolation’

  More example sentences

  • ‘If the candidate seems prepared to ratiocinate every policy question rather than apply values to its solution, that candidate will lose.’
  • ‘Man is said, for instance, to be the ‘rational animal,’ but you won't find much ratiocinating among fetuses.’
  • ‘Almost definitely two, actually, since she knew there were three new arrivals, and of course, she had already met one, she ratiocinated.’
  • ‘His father, Alan Fry, was written up as the villain in these early times; an inventor whose ‘infuriatingly, cold, precise ratiocinating engine of a brain fuelled by a wholly egocentric passion.’’

  Synonyms

  think rationally, think logically, think straight, use one's mind, use one's common sense, use one's head, use one's brain, think things through, cogitate

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