Crossword clues for rationalise
rationalise
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of rationalize. For suffix, see -ize. Related: Rationalised; rationalising; rationalisation.
chiefly British English spelling of rationalize; see -ize. Related: Rationalised; rationalising; rationalisation.
Wiktionary
vb. (context UK spelling English) (alternative spelling of rationalize English)
WordNet
v. structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results; "We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits" [syn: rationalize]
defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success" [syn: apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize]
think rationally; employ logic or reason; "When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize" [syn: rationalize]
remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized" [syn: rationalize]
weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet" [syn: cut, prune, rationalize]
Usage examples of "rationalise".
She treated difficult theological questions with so much grace, and rationalised so skilfully, that though one might not be convinced it was impossible to help being attracted.
At Oxford he had rationalised it in his philosophical studies, but he had never troubled to make it a self-sufficing logical creed.
You're trying to rationalise away a whole past -- and a present -- which doesn't bear looking at under a spotlight.
If we apply our reason, not only to objects of experience, in order to make use of the principles of the understanding, but venture to extend it beyond the limit of experience, there arise rationalising or sophistical propositions, which can neither hope for confirmation nor need fear refutation from experience.
These rationalising or dialectical assertions are so many attempts at solving four perfectly natural and inevitable problems of reason.
In spite of this, the proposition that the soul is a substance may well be allowed to stand, if only we see that this concept cannot help us on in the least or teach us any of the ordinary conclusions of rationalising psychology, as, for instance, the everlasting continuance of the soul amid all changes and even in death, and that it therefore signifies a substance in idea only, and not in reality.
Simon did the latter, but he knew that most of the people he worked with leaned toward the former: let Hylton do their rationalising for them.
Besides, he said, rationalising it and silencing me, Peterman needed the tetracycline as soon as possible.