Crossword clues for rationale
rationale
- Limit alcoholic drink – here's why?
- Reasons to cut down on drink?
- Reasoned exposition
- Reason to limit booze
- Reason to limit the supply of alcohol
- Reason address fails to start? One may be drunk
- Be careful with drink — that's the thinking!
- Is it reasonable not to have a second pint?
- Underlying reason
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rationale \Ra`tion*a"le\ (r[a^]sh`[u^]*n[a^]l" or r[a^]sh`[u^]n*[=a]"l[-e]), n. [L. rationalis, neut. rationale. See Rational, a.] An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles themselves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "exposition of principles," from Late Latin rationale, noun use of neuter of Latin rationalis "of reason" (see rational). Hence, "fundamental reason" (1680s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 an explanation of the basis or fundamental reasons for something 2 a justification or rationalization for something 3 a liturgical vestment worn by Christian bishops of various denominations
WordNet
n. (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature); "the rationale for capital punishment"; "the principles of internal-combustion engines" [syn: principle]
Wikipedia
A rationale, also called superhumerale (from Latin super, "over", and [h]umerus, "shoulder"; thus a garment worn "over the shoulder[s]"), is a liturgical vestment worn exclusively by bishops mostly in the Roman Catholic Church. It is mainly characterized as a humeral ornament - yet also adorning chest and back - and is worn over the chasuble. The term rationale originates from a Latin translation of the Ancient Greek λόγιον logion for the Hebrew חֹשֶׁן hoshen by St. Jerome, referring to the sacred breastplate worn by the High Priest of the Israelites, according to the Book of Exodus.
During the Middle Ages it was worn by several Bishops, primarily in the Holy Roman Empire, as far spread as Regensburg, Prague and Liège. Its use largely died out in the 13th century, although there is evidence that it was worn at Reims until the 16th century. Some rationales can be found preserved at Eichstätt, Bamberg and Regensburg. The earliest pictures of rationales that exist are two pictures of Bishop Sigebert of Minden, a miniature and an ivory tablet, which were both incorporated in a Mass Ordo belonging to the Bishop.
The only Bishops who wear rationales in the 21st century are:
- the Bishop of Eichstätt, Germany - Gregor Maria Franz Hanke, O.S.B. (since 2006),
- the Metropolitan Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany - Hans-Josef Becker (since 2003),
- the Bishop of Toul, now Nancy (-Toul), France - Jean-Louis Papin (since 1999), and
- the Metropolitan Archbishop of Kraków, Poland - Stanisław Dziwisz (since 2005).
The modern rationale is a humeral collar, ornamented in the front and back with appendages.
Rationales are occasionally still worn by episcopi vagantes in the Celtic Christian Orthodox Church, a small community with historical links to the Old Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy.
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Rationale may refer to:
- An explanation of the basis or fundamental reasons for something
- Design rationale, an explicit documentation of the reasons behind design decisions
- Rationale (clothing), a liturgical vestment worn by clergy, in particular by Roman Catholic Church bishops
- Rationale (musician), a Zimbabwean-born British singer and songwriter
Usage examples of "rationale".
For the economic rationale of this, I must refer disciples of Siegfried to a tract from my hand published by the Fabian Society and entitled The Impossibilities of Anarchism, which explains why, owing to the physical constitution of our globe, society cannot effectively organize the production of its food, clothes and housing, nor distribute them fairly and economically on any anarchic plan: nay, that without concerting our social action to a much higher degree than we do at present we can never get rid of the wasteful and iniquitous welter of a little riches and a deal of poverty which current political humbug calls our prosperity and civilization.
This is a very clear exposition of the rationale for morphological dating.
That was the rationale behind early parthenogenesis experiments on Herlandiaattempting to cull masculinity from the human process entirely.
While the rationale of the she-male may seem to be nothing more than a transparent attempt at rationalization, upon closer examination it reveals an interesting form of transvestic metaphysics.
All Carter and Bogdanovich did was to apply that rationale to the astrogation charts.
Religions of high complexity of feeling and rationale, forms of architecture, conceived in the spirit of that religion and put into its service, lyric poetry, pictorial art, sculpture, music, orders of nobility, orders of priesthood, stylized dwellings, stylized manners and dress, rigid training of the young up to these developments to perpetuate them, systems of philosophy, of mathematics, of knowledge, of nature, prodigious technical methods, giant battles, huge armies, prolonged wars, energetic economics to support this whole multifarious structure, intricately organized governments to infuse order into the nations created by the higher being acting on the different types of human materialthese are some of the floraison of forms which appear in these two areas.
A similar rationale determined that subjects would introspectively focus on simple perceptual stimuli, for Wundt believed that more complex mental phenomena, such as thoughts, volitions, and feelings, were not sufficiently amenable to experimental control to be objects of scientific inner perception.
The men returned to their tanks with orders, not encouragement or rationale.
Infanticide was practised by many early cultures, with the rationale of preserving the best of the species.
Although it requires some mathematical background to appreciate fully, as we indicated in Chapter 5, there is a similar rationale behind the gauge symmetries underlying the three nongravitational forces.
Juan thoroughly explained to me the principles, rationales, and practices of the art of dreaming.
The rationale for the containments and the fences around the badlands was that they prevented the spread of toxins and radioactive contamination.
The reason they do so is one of history: they started out as true cladists, and kept some of the methods of cladists while abandoning their fundamental philosophy and rationale.
For the economic rationale of this, I must refer disciples of Siegfried to a tract from my hand published by the Fabian Society and entitled The Impossibilities of Anarchism, which explains why, owing to the physical constitution of our globe, society cannot effectively organize the production of its food, clothes and housing, nor distribute them fairly and economically on any anarchic plan: nay, that without concerting our social action to a much higher degree than we do at present we can never get rid of the wasteful and iniquitous welter of a little riches and a deal of poverty which current political humbug calls our prosperity and civilization.
His rationale was clearly the same as Lande's, when he said: 'The two characteristics affected by such a process, namely plumage development in the male, and sexual preference for such developments in the female, must thus advance together, and so long as the process is unchecked by severe counterselection, will advance with ever-increasing speed.