Ra`ti*oc"i*na*tive (?), a. [L. ratiocinativus.]
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.
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