The corpus record — Latin

rationabilis

rationabilis · adj

reasonable

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Where it lives

Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 7 · 12/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 1 · 3.44/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Res Gestae 4 · 0.31/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

rătĭōnābĭlis — Lewis & Short

rătĭōnābĭlis, e, adj.ratio (post-Aug.; = rationalis, which is in better use),

I reasonable, rational: natura, Sen. Vit. Beat. 14, 1: virtutes quae ad rationabilem animum pertinent, App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 17, 18; cf.: virtutes rationabiles, id. ib.: responsio rationabilis, Vulg. Job, 32, 3: rationabile sine dolo lac, the pure milk of reason, id. 1 Pet. 2, 2: sententia vera et rationabilis, Dig. 5, 1, 2, § 3.—Comp.: rationabilius esse videtur, Dig. 45, 3, 37.—Adv.: rătĭō-nābĭlĭter, rationally, reasonably, App. Dogm. Plat. 1: errare, Hier. Ep. 39, 5; Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 11, 17; Amm. 20, 4, 8; Lact. Ep. 61, 17.

In the wild

rationabili Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.7.2
rationabilis Boethius, Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 3
rationabiliter Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.4.8
rationabilis Apuleius, Metamorphoses 3.4
rationabiliter Boethius, Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 2
rationabili Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 19.6.3

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