Word Meanings - SUPERPARTICULAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to a ratio when the excess of the greater term over the less is a unit, as the ratio of 1 to 2, or of 3 to 4. Hutton.
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- RATIOCINATE
To reason, esp. deductively; to offer reason or argument. - HUTTONING
Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint. - RATIONALIZATION
The act or process of rationalizing. - RATIONALISTIC; RATIONALISTICAL
Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism. -- Ra`tion*al*is"tic*al*ly, adv. - RATIOCINATION
The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning. - RATION
1. A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence. Note: Officers have several rations, the number varying according to their rank or the number of their attendants. 2. Hence, - RATIONALLY
In a rational manner. - RATIONALITY
The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness. When God has made rationality the common portion of mankind, how came it to be thy inclosure Gov. of Tongue. Well-directed - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - RATIONAL
A rational being. Young. - EXCESS
out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; - EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, - RATIOCINATORY
Ratiocinative. - RATIONALIST
One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist. - RATIOCINATIVE
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 - HUTTONIAN
Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton. Lyell. - RATIONALNESS
The quality or state of being rational; rationality. - RATIONALISM
The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation. - RATIONALIZE
To render rational; to free from radical signs or quantities. (more info) 1. To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism. 2. To interpret in the manner of a rationalist. 3. To form a rational conception of. - RATIONALE
An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or like; also, the principles themselves. - MIGRATION
The act of migrating. - COMMISERATION
The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy. - DEDECORATION
Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey. - INCARCERATION
1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill. Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation. - EXULCERATION
1. Ulceration. Quincy. 2. A fretting; a festering; soreness. Hooker. - IMPREPARATION
Want of preparation. Hooker. - IRRATIONAL
Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of - ELABORATION
The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, - REVERBERATION
The act of reverberating; especially, the act of reflecting light or heat, or reëchoing sound; as, the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of rays from a mirror; the reverberation of voices; the reverberation of heat or flame - REMONSTRATION
The act of remonstrating; remonstrance. Todd. - FISSURATION
The act of dividing or opening; the state of being fissured. - EVAPORATION
See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2. - OBDURATION
A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart. - SUPERTUBERATION
The production of young tubers, as potatoes, from the old while still growing. - TRACTORATION
See PERKINISM