英和和英

動詞

derationalise (三人称単数 現在形 derationalises, 現在分詞 derationalising, 過去形および過去分詞形 derationalised)

1. Alternative form of derationalize
   • 1859, The Temperance Pulpit:

     As a moral member of society, I ask on what ground of right, human or divine, the publican is to be allowed to turn men upon society whom he has first contributed to derationalise, and convert for the time into mutinous beasts?

   • 1915, Sir Ernest Barker, Political Thought in England from Herbert Spencer to the Present Day:

     We might urge that reason is none the less reason when it is not conscious inference, and that it is a fallacy to derationalise political society because it is not an explicit organisation of conscious reason.

   • 1998, Angela Devlin, Invisible Women: What's Wrong With Women's Prisons?, →ISBN, page 291:

     Probation officers at different prisons all seemed to deal with this 'rationalising of crime' in similar ways: "We have a debate and derationalise the crime.

   • 2011, Richard Green Moulton, Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist, →ISBN:

     First, he may derationalise, or remove as far as possible from commonplace experience, the general surroundings amidst which the supernatural is to appear.