A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1600-1699
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Ratiocinative, adj. Also: (ratiocitnative). [e.m.E. ratiocinatiue (a1625), F. ratiocinatif (14th c.), L. ratiōcinātīv-]. (A conjunction) implying a relation based upon reasoning. — c1616 Hume Orthog. 33.
Conjunction is a word [etc.] … of it ther be tuoe sortes … enunciative and … ratiocinative … The ratiocinative coples the partes of a ratiocination and it either inferres the conclusion or the reason 16.. Rudiments fol. 30b.
Ratiocitnatiue conjunctions ar they quhilk inferr a conclusione from a reason proponed
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