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A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander.

o the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth's center; -- called also rational or celestial horizon.

A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.

ystem or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.

e or quality of being i Of every species of incredulity, religious unbelief is the most irrational. Buckminster.

rpose; inadequacy; competency; as, the inequality of terrestrial things to the wants of a rational soul. South.

Having power to understand, know, or comprehend; intelligent; rational. Glanvill.

; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessing what we love or desire; gladness; exhilaration of spirits; delight. Her heavenly form beheld, all wished her joy. Dryden. Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. Johnson. Who, for the joy that wa…

rrounding objects; as, to lose one's self in a great city. (b) To have the perceptive and rational power temporarily suspended; as, we lose ourselves in sleep. -- To lose sight of. (a) To cease to see; as, to lose sight of the land. (b) To overlook; to forget; to fail to perceive; as, he lost sight of the issue.…

to an individual. Though this be madness, yet there's method in it. Shak. All method is a rational progress, a progress toward an end. Sir W. Hamilton.

The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body. By the mind of man we understand that in him which thinks, remembers, reasons, wills. Reid. What we mean by min…

Rationalism.

A new doctrine; specifically, rationalism.

; one who introduces or holds doctrines subversie of supernatural or revealed religion; a rationalist, so-called.

he received interpretation of revealed truth; a new method of theological interpretation; rationalism.

The science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology. Sir W. Hamilton.

Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.

The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the Ant: phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers.

To partake of; to share in; to receive a part of. [R.] Fit to participate all rational delight. Milton.

To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield.