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  1.  Not gifted with reason; devoid of reason.

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1582.  Stanyhurst, Æneid, IV. (Arb.), 115. Might not I my lief tyme … Spend lyk an vnreasoned wild beaste?

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1805.  Eugenia de Acton, Nuns of Desert, II. 230. A wretch … so totally un-reasoned as to say [etc.].

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  2.  Not evolved or developed by reasoning.

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1790.  Burke, Fr. Rev., 286. The citizens are interested from old prejudices and unreasoned habits.

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1854.  Ferrer, Inst. Metaph., Introd. 3. An unreasoned philosophy, even though true, carries no guarantee of its truth.

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1880.  Fraser’s Mag., May, 658. Our unreasoned confidence that every vision of truth is in itself a glorious … vision.

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