brainish

adj 5

Definitions

adj

1

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;

2

Purely the work of the imagination, without serious meaning.

For the third, because the worke might in truth be iudged brainish, if nothing but amorous humor were handled therein, I haue inter-wouen matters historicall, which unexplaned, might defraud the mind of much content, as for example, in Queene Margarites Epistle to William de-la-Poole.

It is a folly–nothing, a mere thought, A brainish fancy.

3

Cerebral; intellectual rather than physical or emotional.

That such existences there are, I know; For, whether by the corporal organ framed, Or painted by a brainish fantasy Upon the inner sense, not once nor twice, But sundry times, have I beheld such things Since my tenth year, and most in this last past.

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 ?

4

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.

5

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 .

In the early days of the cognitive revolution against the reigning ideas of behaviourism, the brainish beginnings of the movement – in the work of such pioneers as Norbert Wiener and WarrenMcCulloch– were swept aside by an ideology that called for ever higher levels of abstraction.

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