cerebration
(sɛrɪˈbreɪʃən)
[f. L. cerebrum brain + -ation.]
Brain-action. First used by Dr. W. B. Carpenter in the phrase unconscious cerebration, to express that action of the brain which, though unaccompanied by consciousness, produces results which might have been produced by thought.
| 1853 Carpenter Phys. (ed. 4) §819 It is difficult to find an appropriate term for this class of operations..The designation unconscious cerebration is perhaps less objectionable than any other. 1866 Argyll Reign Law vi. (1871) 282 There are philosophers who appear to think..that thought is in some measure explained when it is called Cerebration. 1869 Daily News 15 July, An example of what physiologists call reflex cerebration. |
Hence cereˈbrational a.
| 1874 Contemp. Rev. 206 The cerebrational assumption. |