brainial

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adjective

Of or pertaining to the brain.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjective
  1. uncommonOf or pertaining to the brain.

    [...] divided into digestory, brainial, muscular, bronchial, cutaneous, and renal.

    1865, Thomas Scott Lambert, Systematic Human Physiology, Anatomy, and Hygiene: Being an Analysis and Synthesis of the Human System, with Practical Conclusions, page 381
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    In short, he became dead drunk, as it were, from brainial excitement. It is very true that genius is nearly allied to madness; and it becomes all, but particularly persons of a literary turn of mind, to take warning, when tempted,— ...

    1840, William Moore Wooler, On the Philosophy of Temperance, and the physical causes of moral sadness, page 65

    Its dominant spirit would map out the brainial^([sic]) hemispheres with their convolutions into sections, arbitrarily labeled, as phrenology has done with the cranium.

    1895, Werner's Magazine: A Magazine of Expression, page 137

    Synonyms: brainy, cerebral

  2. uncommonBrainy; smart, pertaining to or exhibiting intellect.

    Be they called playing cards or face cards, the question remains, what brought about the banishment of this brainial banter? Brother Paul takes a closer look. First up, the origins of playing cards. ORIGIN: Nobody knows ...

    2005, Paul B. Skousen, Harold K. Moon, Brother Paul's Mormon Bathroon Reader, Cedar Fort, →ISBN, page 43
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    Preparatory to this he invited some of his friends to a banquet, which is thus taken off by one of the daily papers : 'Last evening a party of gentlemen ate a 'brainial' dinner at Jones's restaurant, in Broadway, their host being Dr. T. S. Lambert.'

    1875, Food for the Brain, in The Sanitary Record: A Journal of Public Health (Ernest Hart, ed.), page 24, quoting another paper

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveOf or pertaining to the brain.

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