cereˈbrose, a. rare.
[ad. L. cerebrōsus headstrong, passionate, f. cerebrum brain.]
‘Brainsick, mad-brained, wilful, stubborn’ (Bailey 1727).
Hence † cereˈbrosity.
| a 1586 Sidney Wanst. Play Wks. (1674) 622 (D.) Till I have endoctrinated your plumbeous cerebrosities. 1647–8 Wood Life (1848) 36 To admit..a meer frog of Helicon to croak the cataracts of his plumbeous cerebrosity before your sagacious ingenuities. 1656 Heylin Extraneus Vap. 38. |