rationable
adjEtymology From Middle English racionable, a learned borrowing from Classical Latin ratiōnābilis. Doublet of reasonable.
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Archaic Synonym of rational or reasonable.
- Instinctive drives are, in this sense, rationable; they are admitted, by the mature individual, to influence on his behavior only on condition of contributing to the going program of action.1952 December, William Ernest Hocking, “Problems of World Order in the Light of Recent Philosophical Discussion”, in The American Political Science Review, volume XLVI, number 4, Menasha, Wis.: George Banta Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1125:
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