\Ra`ti*oc"i*na*tive\, a. [L. ratiocinativus.]
Characterized by, or addicted to, ratiocination; consisting
in the comparison of proportions or facts, and the deduction
of inferences from the comparison; argumentative; as, a
ratiocinative process.

      The ratiocinative meditativeness of his character.
                                               --Coleridge.