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By reason of
3. Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice. I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme. --Spenser. But law in a free nation hath been ever public reason; the enacted reason of a parliament, which he denying to enact, denies to govern us by that which ought to be our law; interposing his own private reason, which to us is no law. --Milton. The most probable way of bringing France to reason would be by the making an attempt on the Spanish West Indies. --Addison. 4. (Math.) Ratio; proportion. [Obs.] --Barrow. By reason of, by means of; on account of; because of. ``Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil.' --Bacon. In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view. When anything is proved by as good arguments as a thing of that kind is capable of, we ought not, in reason, to doubt of its existence. --Tillotson. It is reason, it is reasonable; it is right. [Obs.] Yet it were great reason, that those that have children should have greatest care of future times. --Bacon. Syn: Motive; argument; ground; consideration; principle; sake; account; object; purpose; design. See Motive, Sense.

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