brainish

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   hot-headed

   hot-headed; furious

   • And, in this brainish apprehension, kills / The unseen good old man.
   • I had slain a man, Even thy sone, Amphidamas, whom, unwittingly of life I reft In a brainish moment, foolishly, when we quarrelled o'er the dice;
   • Solicitude for the interests of true womanhood has put the knights errant into such a state of "brainish apprehension," that they hasten to imagine all kinds of terrible catastrophes which could not possibly happen .
2. 2

   Purely the work of the imagination, without serious meaning.

   • It is a folly–nothing, a mere thought, A brainish fancy.
   • I see– but fie, thou brainish Muse! what mean These vapourings, and brags of what by thee is seen?
3. 3

   Cerebral

   Cerebral; intellectual rather than physical or emotional.

   • Will ye still pluck our christian belief from the right hand of God, the eternal Father, and send it to a box of your brainish devising ?
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   1. 4

      Intellectual

      Intellectual; highly intelligent.

      • I think we shall win. Pig 22, who is the first pusher for those who wish to abolish forks, is a highly lunatised and brainish wug.
      • "Oh, has thou solved the integral? Here is a raise, my brainish boy!" He threw his time cards in the air And clapped his hands with joy.
      • Brainish men are ambitious and incapable, while discreet men are timid and excessively conservative.
   2. 5

      Neurological

      Neurological; concerning the brain and nervous system.

      • According to them, any genuine entities or processes of which we may speak in mentalistic terms may be (as Place holds) and very probably are (as Smart holds) just physiological ones of a neural or brainish sort .
   3. 6

      Brain-like.

      • That is, his beliefs about the physical world (including, I think it must be admitted, even the belief that conscious experience can only emerge, somehow, from an appropriately brainish sort of physical object) are entirely arbitrary.

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