Word Meanings - REASON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ratio; proportion. Barrow. By reason of, by means of; on account of; because of. "Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil." Bacon. In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view.

Additional info about word: REASON

Ratio; proportion. Barrow. By reason of, by means of; on account of; because of. "Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil." Bacon. In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view. When anything is proved by as good arguments as a thing of that kind is capable of, we ought not, in reason, to doubt of its existence. Tillotson. -- It is reason, it is reasonable; it is right. Yet it were great reason, that those that have children should have greatest care of future times. Bacon. Syn. -- Motive; argument; ground; consideration; principle; sake; account; object; purpose; design. See Motive, Sense. (more info) rapj number, account, garapjan to count, G. rede speech, reden to speak), fr. reri, ratus, to reckon, believe, think. Cf. Arraign, 1. A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument. I'll give him reasons for it. Shak. The reason of the motion of the balance in a wheel watch is by the motion of the next wheel. Sir M. Hale. This reason did the ancient fathers render, why the church was called "catholic." Bp. Pearson. Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. Tillotson. 2. The faculty of capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty. We have no other faculties of perceiving or knowing anything divine or human, but by our five senses and our reason. P. Browne. In common and popular discourse, reason denotes that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong, and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends. Stewart. Reason is used sometimes to express the whole of those powers which elevate man above the brutes, and constitute his rational nature, more especially, perhaps, his intellectual powers; sometimes to express the power of deduction or argumentation. Stewart. By the pure reason I mean the power by which we become possessed of principles. Coleridge. The sense perceives; the understanding, in its own peculiar operation, conceives; the reason, or rationalized understanding, comprehends. Coleridge. 3. Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice. I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme. Spenser. But law in a free nation hath been ever public reason; the enacted reason of a parliament, which he denying to enact, denies to govern us by that which ought to be our law; interposing his own private reason, which to us is no law. Milton. The most probable way of bringing France to reason would be by the making an attempt on the Spanish West Indies. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REASON)

• Account
• Narration
• report
• rehearsal
• story
• statement
• narrative
• recital
• relation
• description
• motive
• value
• importance
• advantage
• ground
• reason
• profit
• Argue
• Discuss
• debate
• prove
• question
• evidence
• establish
• imply
• sift
• dispute
• persuade
• controvert
• contend
• demonstrate
• Cause
• Source
• origin
• producer
• agent
• creator
• purpose
• inducement
• account
• principle
• object
• suit
• action
• Ground
• Basis
• foundation
• premise
• cause
• plea
• Intellect
• Understanding
• mind
• instinct
• consciousness
• sense
• brains
• ability
• talent
• genius

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REASON)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Dictate
• state
• assert
• pronounce
• enunciate
• concede
• endorse
• affirm
• grant
• allow
• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• disregard
• vilipend
• underrate
• underestimate
• despise
• contemn
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to REASON)

• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• AMENABILITY
  The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• INEVIDENCE
  Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
• EQUABILITY
  The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• COMMENSURABILITY
  The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.