Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From ration + -able. Piecewise doublet of reasonable.
Stocks fell 60 percent in two months to 35000 tons of rationable meat.2002, Kevin Smith, Conflict Over Convoys:
From Middle English racionable, a learned borrowing from Classical Latin ratiōnābilis. Doublet of reasonable.
Instinctive drives are, in this sense, rationable; they are admitted, by the mature individual, to influence on his behavior only on condition of contributing to the going program of action.1952 December, William Ernest Hocking, “Problems of World Order in the Light of Recent Philosophical Discussion”, in The American Political Science Review, volume XLVI, number 4, Menasha, Wis.: George Banta Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1125:
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most rationable | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more rationable | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |