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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reasoned
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
argument
▪ The lawyer advocates formal legal propositions which he supports with reasoned arguments.
▪ The reader should be able to confirm the direction of the shifts either graphically or by reasoned argument.
▪ It was not worth presenting reasoned arguments to Mrs Harper.
▪ It was not a place for reasoned argument and Alec Davidson did not press his point further.
▪ It has shown the importance of children's previous experience of exploratory discussion and reasoned argument.
▪ In doing so, they replace debate with assertion, and pull an essay away from patterns of reasoned argument.
▪ All those rules which constitute natural justice are related directly or indirectly to the idea of presenting proofs and reasoned argument.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a well-reasoned response
▪ It became clear that calm, reasoned arguments were not working in this volatile situation.
▪ We must have an informed and reasoned debate of the moral issues involved.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Here reasoned choice between lesser evils was the course which brought the least ill on humanity.
▪ It was not worth presenting reasoned arguments to Mrs Harper.
▪ Its value lies in the way it opens up the issue for reasoned discussion.
▪ On 13 May 1991 Barnett J. in a reasoned judgment refused relief.
▪ The reader should be able to confirm the direction of the shifts either graphically or by reasoned argument.
▪ They believe it will be weeks before any reasoned dialogue can return.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reasoned

Reason \Rea"son\ (r[=e]"z'n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Reasoned (r[=e]"z'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Reasoning.] [Cf. F. raisonner. See Reason, n.]

  1. To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.

  2. Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.

    Stand still, that I may reason with you, before the Lord, of all the righteous acts of the Lord.
    --1 Sam. xii. 7.

  3. To converse; to compare opinions.
    --Shak.

Wiktionary
reasoned
  1. which is based on reasoning; which is the result of logical thought v

  2. (en-past of: reason)

WordNet
reasoned
  1. adj. reflects weight of sound argument or evidence; "a sound argument" [syn: sound, well-grounded]

  2. resulting from careful thought; "the paper was well thought out" [syn: considered, well thought out(p)]

Usage examples of "reasoned".

But she soon had it reasoned out that her preconceptions in this regard were no doubt due to the stylizing nature of the mythopoeic process itself, which simplified character and motive just as it compressed time and space, so that one imagined Perseus to be speeding tirelessly and thoughtlessly from action to bravura action, when in fact he must have weeks of idleness, hours of indecision, et cetera.

Then Margery was angry with her, for she reasoned, had not Madam Carolan seen what interfering could do, and yet she wanted to interfere with them two lovely young things, wanted to tear them apart when they were yearning for one another, wanted to thrust the little dear into a pair of blue satin arms just because there was a grand tide and money there!

Any feud between Marle and Kendler had been dependent upon misunderstanding, as Cardona reasoned it.

He reasoned himself into doubts of the Divine power and of the immortality of the soul, and finally left the island, nor was he heard of again for many years, though prayer was constantly made for him, and at length it became known that he had wandered to Serampore, where the influence of Marshman and Carey had prevailed to bring back his faith, but he had since been lost at sea.

This sudden change and alteration of celestiall honour, did greatly inflame and kindle the love of very Venus, who unable to temper her selfe from indignation, shaking her head in raging sort, reasoned with her selfe in this manner, Behold the originall parent of all these elements, behold the Lady Venus renowned throughout all the world, with whome a mortall maiden is joyned now partaker of honour : my name registred in the city of heaven is prophaned and made vile by terrene absurdities.

Realizing thus that the creative force inherent in our earth is life within a Reason-Principle, we are easily convinced that the earth There is much more primally alive, that it is a reasoned Earth-Livingness, the earth of Real-Being, earth primally, the source of ours.

Reason-Principle, we are easily convinced that the earth There is much more primally alive, that it is a reasoned Earth-Livingness, the earth of Real-Being, earth primally, the source of ours.

Hahnemann found that the Pansy violet, when taken by provers, served to induce cutaneous eruptions, or to aggravate them, and he reasoned out the curative action of the plant in small diluted doses for the cure of these symptoms, when occurring as disease.

Descartes reasoned the animals into automata, and a generation or so later, man himself was rationalized into an automatonor equally, an animal.

Saville reasoned, reproached, reprehended, without any avail, except that when her violence had passed its crisis, she repented, and wept, and besought forgiveness.

So Sparkler Meldin reasoned, as he looked about and located an obscure door in a front corner of the compact gambling room.

I reasoned that if there was, he would be squawking or jumping about or endeavoring in some way to warn me.

What was too much for an Alaskan, I reasoned, could easily become too much for a New Englander.

This puzzled me, and at the first opportunity I traveled into Aylesbury to make such inquiries as I could at a country store on the outskirts of the village, where, I reasoned, Seth might most probably have made purchases, since he had had the reputation of being a reclusive individual.

But, Bardo reasoned, if exceptions in custom could be made for an archaic Jew, he could certainly arrange a compromise with a wild boy who believed that a stupid white bird could hold half of his soul.