derationalize

present singular third person derationalizes · participle present derationalizing · participle past derationalized · past derationalized

1. transitiveTo make irrational.

   And, inasmuch as the soul is influenced, to an indefinite degree, by the body, atavism seems to derationalize the Christian theory of morality.

   1880, The Church Quarterly Review - Volume 9, page 310

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   Thus, by the self-subversive logic of evolution in legal ideas, we derationalize procedure the better to vindicate the rationalization of substantive law.

   1997, Richard Rawlings, Law, Society, and Economy: Centenary Essays for the London School of Economics and Political Science 1895-1995, →ISBN

   This achieves the purpose of expanding the framework inside which performers are compelled to work, and also — as the intellectual must do — it elaborates an alternative argument to the prevailing conventions that so deaden and dehumanize and derationalize the human spirit.

   2008, Edward W. Said, Music at the Limits, →ISBN, page 277

   Thus far, I have been arguing that Ginsberg's poetry represents an attempt to demasculinize and derationalize American poetry; however, Ginsberg's poetic project also has an aggressively masculine side as well.

   2011, James Penner, Pinks, Pansies, and Punks, →ISBN