Reason

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Etymology 1

Template:Root From Template:Inh, Template:M, from Template:Der (Template:Der), from Template:Der, from Template:M, past participle of Template:M, ultimately from Template:Der, reanalysed root of Template:M. Displaced native Template:Cog, from Template:Cog, from the same Proto-Indo-European source (compare Template:Cog, Template:Cog). Template:Doublet.

Noun

1. A cause:
   1. That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.

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   2. A motive for an action or a determination.

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      • 1806, Anonymous, Select Notes to Book XXI, in, Template:W, translator, The Template:W of Template:W, volume 6 (London, F.J. du Roveray), page 37:

        This is the reason why he proposes to offer a libation, to atone for the abuse of the day by their diversions.

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   3. An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
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   4. Template:Lb A premise placed after its conclusion.
2. Template:Lb Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.

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3. Template:Lb Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
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     I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.

4. Template:Lb Ratio; proportion.
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Synonyms

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Translations

• Aghwan: Template:T
• Albanian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Arabic: Template:T

  Egyptian Arabic: Template:T

  South Levantine Arabic: Template:T

• Armenian: Template:T+
• Assamese: Template:T
• Avar: Template:T
• Azerbaijani: Template:T+
• Bashkir: Template:T
• Basque: Template:T
• Belarusian: Template:T
• Bengali: Template:T+
• Bulgarian: Template:T+
• Burmese: Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Cebuano: Template:T
• Chichewa: Template:T
• Chinese:

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  Mandarin: Template:T+, Template:T+

• Crimean Tatar: Template:T
• Czech: Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Dutch: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Esperanto: Template:T+
• Estonian: Template:T+
• Finnish: Template:T+
• French: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Galician: Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T, Template:T
• German: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+

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• Hebrew: Template:T+
• Hindi: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Icelandic: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Indonesian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Irish: Template:T+, Template:T

  Old Irish: Template:T, Template:T

• Italian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Japanese: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Kapampangan: Template:T
• Kazakh: Template:T
• Khmer: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Korean: Template:T+, Template:T Template:Qualifier, Template:T+
• Kurdish:

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• Kyrgyz: Template:T+
• Lao: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Latin: Template:T+
• Latvian: Template:T
• Lithuanian: Template:T+
• Macedonian: Template:T
• Malay: Template:T+, Template:T
• Malayalam: Template:T+, Template:T Template:Qualifier
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: Template:T

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Template:T+, Template:T+

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Template:T+, Template:T+

• Nǀuu: Template:T, Template:T
• Occitan: Template:T+
• Old English: Template:T
• Paicî: Template:T
• Pannonian Rusyn: Template:T
• Pashto: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: Template:T, Template:T

• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Romanian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Template:T, Template:T

  Roman: Template:T+, Template:T+

• Silesian: Template:T
• Slovak: Template:T, Template:T
• Slovene: Template:T, Template:T+
• Spanish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Tagalog: Template:T
• Tajik: Template:T+, Template:T
• Tamil: Template:T+
• Tatar: Template:T+
• Thai: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Turkish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Turkmen: Template:T
• Ukrainian: Template:T+
• Urdu: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T
• Uyghur: Template:T
• Uzbek: Template:T+
• Venetan: Template:T+
• Vietnamese: Template:T+, Template:T+

• Armenian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Bulgarian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T

  Mandarin: Template:T+, Template:T+

• Czech: Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T+
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Esperanto: Template:T+
• Finnish: Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T, Template:T
• German: Template:T+
• Greek:

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• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Indonesian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Irish: Template:T+, Template:T

  Old Irish: Template:T

• Italian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Japanese: Template:T+
• Latin: Template:T+
• Norwegian:

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• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Romanian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Slovak: Template:T
• Swedish: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Turkish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Venetan: Template:T

• Armenian: Template:T+
• Azerbaijani: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Belarusian: Template:T
• Bulgarian: Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Czech: Template:T+
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Finnish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• German: Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Irish: Template:T+, Template:T

  Old Irish: Template:T

• Italian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: Template:T

• Polish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Slovak: Template:T
• Turkish: Template:T+
• Ukrainian: Template:T+, Template:T
• Venetan: Template:T
• Vietnamese: Template:T+, Template:T+

• Albanian: Template:T+
• Arabic: Template:T+
• Armenian: Template:T+
• Asturian: Template:T+
• Bashkir: Template:T
• Belarusian: Template:T
• Bulgarian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+

• Czech: Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Esperanto: Template:T+, Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• Friulian: Template:T
• Galician: Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T
• German: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Gothic: Template:T, Template:T
• Greek: Template:T+, Template:T+

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• Haitian Creole: Template:T
• Hebrew: Template:T
• Hungarian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Ingrian: Template:T
• Irish: Template:T, Template:T
• Italian: Template:T+
• Japanese: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Kazakh: Template:T
• Korean: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Ladin: Template:T
• Latin: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Latvian: Template:T
• Malayalam: Template:T+
• Norwegian:

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• Occitan: Template:T+
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Template:T

• Old French: Template:T, Template:T
• Ottoman Turkish: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Persian: Template:T+
• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Romanian: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Serbo-Croatian:

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  Roman: Template:T+

• Slovak: Template:T
• Slovene: Template:T
• Spanish: Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Thai: Template:T+
• Turkish: Template:T+
• Ukrainian: Template:T+
• Venetan: Template:T, Template:T+
• Vietnamese: Template:T+

• Belarusian: Template:T
• Bulgarian: Template:T+
• Finnish: Template:T+
• Indonesian: Template:T+
• Italian: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+

• Albanian: Template:T+check
• French: Template:T+check
• Italian: Template:T+check
• Spanish: Template:T+check
• Swahili: Template:T+check

• Albanian: Template:T+check, Template:T-check
• Dalmatian: Template:T-check
• Danish: Template:T+check
• Esperanto: Template:T+check
• Estonian: Template:T+check, Template:T-check
• Friulian: Template:T-check
• Georgian: Template:T-check
• Greek: Template:T+check
• Hindi: Template:T+check, Template:T+check
• Hungarian: Template:T+check
• Italian: Template:T+check, Template:T+check, Template:T+check
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: Template:T-check

• Latgalian: Template:T-check
• Latvian: Template:T-check, Template:T-check
• Malayalam: Template:T+check, Template:T+check
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Template:T+check

• Occitan: Template:T+check
• Persian: Template:T+check
• Sanskrit: Template:T+check, Template:T+check
• Sardinian: Template:T-check
• Scottish Gaelic: Template:T-check
• Spanish: Template:T+check, Template:T+check
• Swahili: Template:T+check
• Swedish: Template:T+check, Template:T+check
• Telugu: Template:T+check
• Urdu: Template:T+check, Template:T-check

Verb

1. Template:Lb To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational
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2. Template:Lb To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
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3. Template:Lb To converse; to compare opinions.
4. Template:Lb To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.

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5. Template:Lb To support with reasons, as a request.
6. Template:Lb To persuade by reasoning or argument.

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7. Template:Lb To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.

   to reason down a passion

8. Template:Lb To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

   to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon

Translations

• Albanian: Template:T
• Bulgarian: Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T+, Template:T
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Finnish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• German: Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Italian: Template:T+
• Norwegian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+
• Slovak: Template:T, Template:T
• Spanish: Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+

• Albanian: Template:T
• Bulgarian: Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Finnish: Template:T+
• German: Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Italian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+
• Slovak: Template:T, Template:T
• Swedish: Template:T

• Catalan: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Italian: Template:T+
• Norwegian: Template:T+ Template:T+
• Polish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+

• Bulgarian: Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Serbo-Croatian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+

• Indonesian: Template:T+check, Template:T+check, Template:T+check
• Mandarin: Template:T+check
• Romanian: Template:T+check (1), Template:T+check (2)
• Yiddish: Template:T-check (1), Template:T-check (2)

Etymology 2

From Template:Inh, Template:M, Template:M, Template:M, from Template:Inh, probably from Template:Inh, from Template:Inh, from Template:Der.

Alternative forms

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Noun

1. A wall plate.

Derived terms

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Further reading

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• Template:R:Webster 1913
• Template:R:Century 1911

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