Rationably
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 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 […]."
Example
More examples"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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