Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To use the power of reason; think. See Synonyms at think.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To have the brain in action; exhibit brain-action. Also cerebrize.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. (Physiol.) To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.
WordNet 3.0
- v. use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
Etymologies
- From Latin cerebrum ("brain"); likely Back-formation from cerebration. (Wiktionary)
- Back-formation from cerebration, act of thinking, from Latin cerebrum, brain; see cerebrum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The cerebrate was a leader, a strategist, not a fighter.”
“I guess politics never stops even when we cerebrate the life of a crucial in our history.”
“They argue, that the states have the power to regulate the particulars of licensing a religous ceremony that alters the legal status of the folk involved, they cerebrate a court overturning the peoples will on the basis of federal law - in this case the law.”
“Al Jazeera removed all the comments including mine exposing their spin when questioned since when Muslim cerebrate Christmas?”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Thanks for keeping up the amusing blog and encouraging UU's to actually look at one another while they cerebrate!”
“The second cerebrate lifted its front end toward the archway and, responding to its mental commands, the lesser zerg pulled away from the cocoon and charged toward the Terrans.”
“It was the other cerebrate, Daggoth, the one that in his dreams had given Kerrigan the use of his warriors for her assault on the Amerigo.”
“The other cerebrate hunched closer to the strange pulsing oblong, like a protective mother warily circling her prize egg.”
“Then the Overmind summoned it as well, and the cerebrate called its brood together, linking them tightly for travel through the warp.”
““I would speak with you, o Zasz of the cerebrate.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cerebrate’.
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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rhii's words to remember and incorporate
Just whatever words I might happen across in my wanderings that I find myself compelled to write down so that I remember to try to use them. Not necessarily unusual words, but worthwhile ones.
redact, treatise, vitrify, cogitate, propensity, silphium, saccharine, minutiae, sluicing, dalliance, remonstrated, carnelian and 131 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Vocabulary
paradox, aberration, laconic, lugubrious, credulous, loquacious, deprecate, pointillistic, epigone, vehement, surly, obtuse and 359 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 256 more...
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nimwunnan's list
Eschew obfuscation, expiate redundant pleonasm.
callipygian, deipnosophist, convivant, trammel, cupidity, bloviate, demure, suprasternal, cerebrate, ebriection, bildungsroman, coccyx and 2 more...
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PresentSimple's List
Words which I have came across and want to remember.
dasypygal, patois, anhedonia, aculia, pleonasm, tautology, verbose, disingenuous, felicitous, bête noire, dissolute, scatology and 83 more...
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