rationably

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From rationable +‎ -ly.

Adverb[edit]

rationably (comparative more rationably, superlative most rationably)

  1. (now rare) Rationally, reasonably. [from 15th c.]
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section X:
      By this Hypothesis there is no one experiment of colour that I have yet met with, but may be, I conceive, very rationably solv'd, and perhaps, had I time to examine several particulars requisite to the demonstration of it, I might prove it more than probable […].
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