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Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.

Quality of being reasonable.

aking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon.

Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.

To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum. Amercements . . . were affeered by the judges. Blackstone.

asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele.

Unreasonableness; absurdity. [Obs.]

t; as, a seal appendant to a paper. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely. Or by her charms Draws him awry, enslaved. Milton. Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men. Milton.

as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion. To doubt,…

jurisprudence developing under the guidance of the courts so as to apply a consistent and reasonable rule to each litigated case. It may be superseded by statute, but unless superseded it controls. Wharton.

Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just. Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction. Sir H. Wotton.

The quality of being conscionable; reasonableness. Johnson.

Same as Correspondence, 3. The correspondencies of types and antitypes . . . may be very reasonable confirmations. S. Clarke.

Addicted to crotchets and whims; unreasonable in opinions; crotchety. [Colloq.]

to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. Carlyle.

Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand. Again that cry was found to have been as unreasonable as ever. Macaulay.

lay. Discussion of a problem or an equation (Math.), the operation of assigning different reasonable values to the arbitrary quantities and interpreting the result. Math. Dict.

bligation. [Obs.] Absolving and disobliging from a more general command for some just and reasonable cause. Milton.

A dissuasive. [R.] This virtuous and reasonable person, however, has ill luck in all his dissuasories. Jeffrey.