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REASONED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Logically valid
Example:
a sound argument
Synonyms:
reasoned; sound; well-grounded
Classified under:
Similar:
valid (well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb reason
Context examples:
The team reasoned that the earlier they introduced electromechanical stimuli, the greater the effect would be.
(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)
The scientists reasoned that if Th17 cells are as important to periodontitis as the animal studies suggested, not having Th17 cells should protect against gum disease.
(Researchers identify immune culprits linked to inflammation and bone loss in gum disease, National Institutes of Health)
Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The researchers reasoned they could genetically engineer T cells to express portions of Dsg3, and thus specifically destroy the miscreant B cells without affecting the rest of the immune system.
(Approach targets autoimmunity, NIH)
How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Meg reasoned, pleaded, and commanded, all in vain.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was no reasoned impulse that made White Fang do what he then did.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Her duplicity hurts me more than all; till the very last, if I reasoned with her, she declared herself as much attached to me as ever, and laughed at my fears.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
If the birds had been domesticated or even heavily farmed, they reasoned, the Egyptian specimens would have shown only a little genetic diversity.
(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)
While I walked under the dripping orange-trees of my wet garden, and amongst its drenched pomegranates and pine-apples, and while the refulgent dawn of the tropics kindled round me—I reasoned thus, Jane—and now listen; for it was true Wisdom that consoled me in that hour, and showed me the right path to follow.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
