Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Exertion or action of the brain, conscious or unconscious.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of cerebrating; thinking, mental activity.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
Examples
“Human cerebration is the most important rill we know of, and both the 'capacity' and the 'intensity' factor thereof may be treated as infinitesimal.”
“And the theory which we have now before us sanctions the doctrine that it may be so regarded, if only we remember that its causal activity depends upon its identity with the obverse aspect known as cerebration, without which identity in apparent duality neither volition nor cerebration could be the cause which in fact they are.”
“Indeed, they reduce themselves to these two principal propositions: for some the unconscious is a purely physiological activity, a "cerebration"; for others it is a gradual diminution of consciousness which exists without being bound to me -- i.e., to the principal consciousness.”
“The individual may appear entirely confident in what they are saying, speaking at length without pause, without displaying any deliberation, cerebration, contemplation or any other forms of thought whatsoever.”
GOP Mailer Likens John McCain To Hillary, Suggests Obama Is All About "Pretty Words"
“The purity of language and the precedence of language over cerebration derives from his visual conception of words.”
“Using computers traditionally has been associated with Mr. Spock-style cerebration, the ultimate kind of left-brain activity.”
“The ripple of power and cerebration outclassed any party political conference I have attended.”
“Our LSD sessions were the opposite of parties; they brought on bouts of crushing introspection and spirals of anxious cerebration.”
“Fear impedes cerebration and people make dumb moves when emotions run high.”
“Too often, as we look at a pointillist canvas, some obstacle seems to intercede between the eye and the heart; perhaps it's the dazzle of technique, or the chill of theory, cerebration and scientific calculation.”
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