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Definition of Reasoned
1. Adjective. Logically valid. "A sound argument"
Definition of Reasoned
1. Adjective. which is based on reasoning; which is the result of logical thought ¹
2. Verb. (past of reason) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reasoned
1. reason [v] - See also: reason
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reasoned
Literary usage of Reasoned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1878)
"... Werner was doing.177 The only difference between them was, that while Werner
reasoned from the agency of water, Hutton reasoned from the agency of fire. ..."
2. History of the French Revolution of 1848 by Alphonse de Lamartine (1891)
"They did not tremble ; they reasoned; or rather events reasoned for them, in the
urgent position in which / they were placed. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"If you have no time or no inclination to make a reasoned system of the principles
and motives on which you are daily acting, and as a man cannot but act, ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Of all the attacks upon early quakerism, Leslie's ' Snake in the Grass ' was the
most reasoned, and it provoked the greatest number of replies. ..."
5. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"A lady also stood up, and reasoned boldly with the rioters on the impropriety of
their conduct. They soon afterwards retreated, vociferating, ..."