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rational
Part of Speech: Noun
Results: 5
3. Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man.
4. Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; - said of formulae. See under Formula.
Part of Speech: noun
1. A rational being.
Examples of usage:
- Men are but beginning the work of child study and of rational education. - "Dickens As an Educator", James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes.
- In the case of rational creatures, this great design of Nature is still more distinctly marked,- is intended for more important purposes,- and is carried on by a separate system of internal machinery, part of which at least is peculiar to man. - "A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education", James Gall.
- You are my brother's son, sir, and I shall make it my business to teach you to walk, and to talk, and to behave like a rational Christian, while you are under my roof. - "Hildegarde's Home", Laura E. Richards.