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cereˈbrose, a. rare. [ad. L. cerebrōsus headstrong, passionate, f. cerebrum brain.] ‘Brainsick, mad-brained, wilful, stubborn’ (Bailey 1727). Hence † cereˈbrosity.
a1586Sidney Wanst. Play Wks. (1674) 622 (D.) Till I have endoctrinated your plumbeous cerebrosities. 1647–8Wood Life (1848) 36 To admit..a meer frog of Helicon to croak the cataracts of his plumbeous cerebrosity before your sagacious ingenuities. 1656Heylin Extraneus Vap. 38. |