Definition of "reason" in Anglais

noun

1. A cause:

2. (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.

   • Mankind should develop reason above all other virtues.

3. (obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.

   • 16th century Edmund Spenser, Lines on his Promised Pension I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.

4. (mathematics, obsolete) Ratio; proportion.

verb

1. (intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational.

2. (intransitive) To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To converse; to compare opinions.

4. (ambitransitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.

   • I reasoned the matter with my friend.

5. (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.

6. (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.

   • to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan

7. (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.

   • to reason down a passion

8. (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

   • to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon

noun

1. A wall plate.