Definition of reason

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Reason (n.) 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..

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Veto :: Veto (n.) A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.
Moral :: Moral (a.) Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty..
Subjoinder :: Subjoin (v. t.) To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason..
Consideration :: Consideration (n.) That which is, or should be, taken into account as a ground of opinion or action; motive; reason..
Reasoning :: Reasoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reaso.
Discourse :: Discourse (v. i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
Vain :: Vain (superl.) Proud of petty things, or of trifling attainments; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason; conceited; puffed up; inflated..
Pretext :: Pretext (n.) Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.
Deodand :: Deodand (n.) A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand..
Relative :: Relative (a.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys, which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones, admit of a natural transition from one to the other..
Altarage :: Altarage (n.) The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes..
Conclude :: Conclude (v. t.) To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; -- sometimes followed by a dependent clause..
Scholium :: Scholium (n.) A remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration or a train of reasoning.
Persuasion :: Persuasion (n.) The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination..
Ratiocination :: Ratiocination (n.) The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning..
Traduction :: Traduction (n.) A process of reasoning in which each conclusion applies to just such an object as each of the premises applies to.
Incogitancy :: Incogitancy (n.) Want of thought, or of the power of thinking; thoughtlessness; unreasonableness..
Distract :: Distract (v. t.) To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted..
Approvement :: Approvement (n.) a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now known as turning king's (or queen's) evidence in England, and state's evidence in the United States..
Argumentative :: Argumentative (a.) Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse..
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