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brainless, a.|ˈbreɪnlɪs| Also 6 brainsless. [f. brain n. + -less.] 1. Devoid of brain; that has had the brain removed, ‘pithed’.
c1440Promp. Parv. 47 Braynles, incerebrosus. 1547Life 70 Abps. Canterbury To Rdr., A very charnell howse off brainslesse unlearned skulles. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. xxxvi. (1632) 389 A brainlesse body. 1875H. Wood Therap. (1879) 176 The experiments on brainless frogs. 2. †a. Insane, mentally diseased, imbecile. Obs.
1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) v. xxiv. 230 Yf the prynce be..frentyke or braynles. c1500Blowbol's Test. in Halliw. Nugæ P. 9 Braynles as a Marshe hare. 1625tr. Gonsalvio's Sp. Inquis. 164 Some caught vncurable diseases and paines in the head, and became almost brainlesse. b. Foolish, irrational; wanting intelligence, thought, or self-control.
c1470Hors, Shepe, & G. (1822) 21 As souldyours that braynles be & wood. 1575Churchyard Chippes (1817) 127 George Carey, I haue receyved your braynlesse letter. 1797Coleridge Poems (1862) 36 The apostate by the brainless rout adored. 1863Cornh. Mag. Feb., To what shifts a brainless man is put about. Hence ˈbrainlessly adv., ˈbrainlessness.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God vi. vi. (1620) 232, I think no man so brainelessly sottish. 1884Century Mag. Nov. 59 A good deal of hard swearing at his brainlessness. |