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单词 brainless
释义 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.
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