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Antonyms for cerebration

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ser-uh-breyt
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛr əˌbreɪt

Definition of cerebration

Origin :
  • 1853, coined by English physiologist Dr. William B. Carpenter (1813-1885) from Latin cerebrum "brain" (see cerebral) + -ation. Related: Cerebrate (v.); cerebrated.
  • noun thought
Example sentences :
  • I have brain, cerebration—not powerful but fine and of a remarkable quality.
  • Extract from : « I, Mary MacLane » by Mary MacLane
  • The story is full of observation, cerebration, and human affection.
  • Extract from : « Essays on Modern Novelists » by William Lyon Phelps
  • Thus his chief instinct is cerebration—dreaming, meditating, visualizing, planning.
  • Extract from : « How to Analyze People on Sight » by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict
  • Residual currents not sufficient to think this to an end; results of cerebration would be merely human.
  • Extract from : « The Brain » by Alexander Blade
  • Examination immediately undertaken; scientists puzzled because cerebration processes continue to function perfectly.
  • Extract from : « The Brain » by Alexander Blade
  • No doubt it is producing enormous quantities of cerebration, but is it anything more than chaotic and futile cerebration?
  • Extract from : « War and the Future » by H. G. Wells
  • This was rather like chucking a monkey-wrench into the cerebration machinery of the Paris experts.
  • Extract from : « She Stands Accused » by Victor MacClure
  • Pink lay in a hazy world of shifting ideas, of coagulating and disintegrating forms of cerebration.
  • Extract from : « The Giants From Outer Space » by Geoff St. Reynard
  • To begin with, Monism excludes the possibility of volition being determined by cerebration.
  • Extract from : « Mind and Motion and Monism » by George John Romanes
  • It summoned to its aid, without effort of cerebration on the part of its owner, whatever was most needed at the moment.
  • Extract from : « Average Jones » by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Synonyms for cerebration

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