reason vb. (1 cf. REASON sb. 1)
1.
to hold
discussion, carry on conversation, discourse, talk
LLL. I. i. 94
“How well he's read, to
against reading!,”
Mer.V. II. viii. 27
“I r-'d with a Frenchman
yesterday, Who told me”
. . .,
H5 III. vii. 38
“my horse . . . 'Tis a
subject for a sovereign to on,”
R3 IV. iv. 536
“while we here,”
Rom. III. i. 57
“Or coldly of your
grievances.”
2.
to question, discuss
(“what, whether”
. . .) 1H4 II. iii. 109, R3 I. iv. 93.
3.
to discuss or argue
(a matter) Cor. V. iii. 176, Lr. I. ii. 117,
II. iv. 267
“reason not the
need.”
