cerebraten.
/ˈsɛrɪbreɪt/ Chemistry.
A salt of cerebric acid.
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1872 J. H. Bennett Text-bk. Physiol. III. 494 We have now cerebrate of soda mixed with phosphate of lime, &c.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
cerebratev.
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1. transitive. To perform by ‘cerebration;’ to subject to brain-action (esp. unconscious or mechanical).
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1874 Contemp. Rev. 24 205 To say that a man cerebrates a thing more quickly than he could calculate it.
1917 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 699/1 Up, up, they came, cerebrating agonised thoughts.
2. intransitive. To cogitate.
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the mind > mental capacity > thought > think [verb (intransitive)]
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1928 A. Bennett Strange Vanguard xliv. 303 The baron who was still most actively cerebrating, rang the bell.
1940 H. G. Wells New World Order §7. 106 Many among them will cease to cerebrate further and fall by the wayside, but many will go on thinking.
1953 ‘S. Ransome’ Drag Dark (1954) ii. 20 He..just sat there cerebrating.
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