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irrational 1. Maths a. not rational b. (as noun) 2. Prosody in Greek or Latin verse a. of or relating to a metrical irregularity, usually the occurrence of a long syllable instead of a short one b. denoting a metrical foot where such an irregularity occurs How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| If the irrational cannot be excluded, it should be outside the scope of the tragedy. Alexey Alexandrovitch was standing face to face with life, with the possibility of his wife's loving someone other than himself, and this seemed to him very irrational and incomprehensible because it was life itself. In being compelled to labor, not for himself, but for a master; in being vendible by one master to another master; and in being subject at all times to be restrained in his liberty and chastised in his body, by the capricious will of another -- the slave may appear to be degraded from the human rank, and classed with those irrational animals which fall under the legal denomination of property. |
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