Definition of reason

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Reason (v. t.) To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon..

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Exactor :: Exactor (n.) One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands..
Reason :: Reason (n.) Ratio; proportion.
Natural :: Natural (n.) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.
Obtrude :: Obtrude (v. t.) To offer with unreasonable importunity; to urge unduly or against the will.
Casuistry :: Casuistry (a.) Sophistical, equivocal, or false reasoning or teaching in regard to duties, obligations, and morals..
Proud :: Proud (superl.) Giving reason or occasion for pride or self-gratulation; worthy of admiration; grand; splendid; magnificent; admirable; ostentatious.
Obtend :: Obtend (v. t.) To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend.
Conspire :: Conspire (v. i.) To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together..
Willful :: Willful (a.) Governed by the will without yielding to reason; obstinate; perverse; inflexible; stubborn; refractory; as, a willful man or horse..
Account :: Account (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts..
Sophist :: Sophist (n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner..
Reason :: Reason (v. t.) To support with reasons, as a request..
Deduce :: Deduce (v. t.) To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of..
Weak-minded :: Weak-minded (a.) Having a weak mind, either naturally or by reason of disease; feebleminded; foolish; idiotic..
Aberration :: Aberration (n.) A partial alienation of reason.
Reasonable :: Reasonable (adv.) Reasonably; tolerably.
Disputation :: Disputation (v. i.) A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.
Legitimate :: Legitimate (a.) Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference..
Argumentative :: Argumentative (a.) Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse..
Condemnation :: Condemnation (n.) The ground or reason of condemning.
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