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219. ( Nares.) reasonable (rē'zn-a-bl), a. [ If he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left, to be known a reason able creature. Shak., Much Ado, i. 1. 71. 2. Characterized by the use of reason; amenable to reason or sound sense; not sensele , foolish, or extravagant in thought or action. Hir maners might no man amend; Of tong she was trew and renable , And of hir semblant soft and stabile. Ywaine and Gawaine (Ritson's Metr. Rom., I. 10), 1. 208. [( Piers Plowman , Notes, p. 17.) The adjective reasonable ... denotes a character in which reason (taking it in its largest acceptation) po e es a de cided ascendant over the temper and pa ions; and implies no particular propensity to a display of the discursive power, if indeed it does not exclude the idea of such a propensity. D. Stewart, Human Mind, ii. 10, note. 3. Conformable to or required by reason; due to or resulting from good judgment; rationally sound, sensible, natural, etc. Ther doth no wyghte nothing so res on able That nys harme in her [jealousy's] ymagynynge.