Rationably

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Rationally, reasonably. archaic

    "By this Hypothesis there is no one experiment of colour that I have yet met with, but may be, I conceive, very rationably solv'd, and perhaps, had I time to examine several particulars requisite to the demonstration of it, I might prove it more than probable […]."

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"By this Hypothesis there is no one experiment of colour that I have yet met with, but may be, I conceive, very rationably solv'd, and perhaps, had I time to examine several particulars requisite to the demonstration of it, I might prove it more than probable […]."

Etymology

From rationable + -ly.

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