I'll give him reasons for it. --Shak.
The reason of the motion of the balance in a wheel
watch is by the motion of the next wheel. --Sir M.
Hale.
This reason did the ancient fathers render, why the
church was called ``catholic.'' --Bp. Pearson.
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there
is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness
and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
--Tillotson.
2. The faculty of capacity of the human mind by which it is
distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior
animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower
cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and
in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises
conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional
faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or
the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the
understanding, which is called the discursive or
ratiocinative faculty.
We have no other faculties of perceiving or knowing
anything divine or human, but by our five senses and
our reason. --P. Browne.
In common and popular discourse, reason denotes that
power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood,
and right from wrong, and by which we are enabled to
combine means for the attainment of particular ends.
--Stewart.
Reason is used sometimes to express the whole of
those powers which elevate man above the brutes, and
constitute his rational nature, more especially,
perhaps, his intellectual powers; sometimes to
express the power of deduction or argumentation.
--Stewart.
By the pure reason I mean the power by which we
become possessed of principles. --Coleridge.
The sense perceives; the understanding, in its own
peculiar operation, conceives; the reason, or
rationalized understanding, comprehends.
--Coleridge.
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.
When they are clearly discovered, well digested, and
well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such
a theory. --T. Burnet.
2. To support with reasons, as a request. [R.] --Shak.
3. To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one
into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.
Men that will not be reasoned into their senses.
--L'Estrange.
4. To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with down;
as, to reason down a passion.
5. To find by logical process; to explain or justify by
reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out
the causes of the librations of the moon.