He madereason with his boss about taking aday off.
Thereason I robbed the bank was that I needed the money.
If you don't give me areason to go with you, I won't.
1806, Anonymous, Select Notes to Book XXI, in,Alexander Pope, translator,TheOdyssey ofHomer, volume 6 (London, F.J. du Roveray), page 37:
This is thereason why he proposes to offer a libation, to atone for the abuse of the day by their diversions.
1908,Henry James, chapter 10, inThe Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James), New York edition, volume(please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.:Charles Scribner’s Sons,→OCLC; republished asThe Portrait of a Lady (EBook #283), United States:Project Gutenberg, 1 September 2001:
Ralph Touchett, forreasons best known to himself, had seen fit to say that Gilbert Osmond was not a good fellow[…]
Anexcuse: athought or aconsideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
I have forgotten thereason he gave for not travelling by air. I felt sure that it was not the correctreason, and that he suffered from a heart trouble which he kept to himself.
The tremendous tragedy in which he had been involved - it was evident he was a fugitive from Weybridge - had driven him to the very verge of hisreason.
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and purereason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
1734, Isaac Barrow, “Lecture XVII. Of the Names and Diversities of the Twofold Kind of Reason or Proportion, viz. Arithmetical and Geometrical”, in John Kirkby, transl.,The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge.[…], London:[…] Stephen Austen,[…],→OCLC,pages323–324:
[I]f two Quantities repreſented by the Numbers 20 and 4 be compared, by dividing theAntecedent 20 by theConſequent 4, theQuotient is 5; but inverting the Terms, by dividing 4 by 20 theQuotient is. By whichQuotients are declared theGeometricalReaſons of the propoſed Quantities, becauſe if theQuotient found be multiplied by theConſequent, theProduct is equal to theAntecedent; for in the former Compariſon, in the latter; as Things again are referred toEquality.
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1892, Arthur Conan Doyle,The Adventure of the Speckled Band:
"I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is toreason from insufficient data.[…]"
Still my spirit was not broken. I indulged the anticipation of escape, and that speedily. It was impossible, Ireasoned, that men could be so unjust as to detain me as a slave, when the truth of my case was known.
“All right, Dad – I did follow you. But only because I was worried about you.” “Worried about me? I was worried about you! Hanging on to the roof of a speeding car! Are you nuts?” “It wasn’t moving when I climbed on to it,”reasoned the boy.
1901, Ralph Connor, chapter 9, inThe Man from Glengarry:
The talk was mainly between Aleck and Murdie, the others crowding eagerly about and putting in a word as they could. Murdie wasreasoning good-humoredly, Aleck replying fiercely.
toreason one into a belief; toreason one out of his plan
1815 December (indicated as1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 10, inEmma:[…], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London:[…][Charles Roworth and James Moyes] forJohn Murray,→OCLC:
That she was not immediately ready, Emma did suspect to arise from the state of her nerves; she had not yet possessed the instrument long enough to touch it without emotion; she mustreason herself into the power of performance; and Emma could not but pity such feelings, whatever their origin, and could not but resolve never to expose them to her neighbour again.
to find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument—seereason out
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