brainish

adj

1. (obsolete)hot-headed; furious

   “And, in this brainish apprehension, kills / The unseen good old man.”

   “I had slain a man, Even thy sone, Amphidamas, whom, unwittingly of life I reft In a brainish moment, foolishly, when we quarrelled o'er the dice;”

   “Solicitude for the interests of true womanhood has put the knights errant into such a state of "brainish apprehension," that they hasten to imagine all kinds of terrible catastrophes which could not possibly happen .”

2. (obsolete)Purely the work of the imagination, without serious meaning.

   “For the third, because the worke might in truth be iudged brainish, if nothing but amorous humor were handled therein, I haue inter-wouen matters historicall, which unexplaned, might defraud the mind of much content, as for example, in Queene Margarites Epistle to William de-la-Poole.”

   “It is a folly–nothing, a mere thought, A brainish fancy.”

   “I see– but fie, thou brainish Muse! what mean These vapourings, and brags of what by thee is seen?”

3. Cerebral; intellectual rather than physical or emotional.

   “That such existences there are, I know; For, whether by the corporal organ framed, Or painted by a brainish fantasy Upon the inner sense, not once nor twice, But sundry times, have I beheld such things Since my tenth year, and most in this last past.”

   “Will ye still pluck our christian belief from the right hand of God, the eternal Father, and send it to a box of your brainish devising ?”

   “And in all this PRINCESS MARYA ALEXEVNA is perfectly right and plays the true prophet, unless these young people who are getting married have another purpose, their one and only one, unknown to PRINCESS MARYA ALEXEVNA, and that not a brainish purpose, not one recognized by the intellect, but one that gives life its color and the attainment of which is more moving than any other.”

   “Brainish discourses talk only with the understanding, they go no further, because they rise no deeper then from the understanding of him that speaks.”

   “He needs to posit only one microjudgment because he is much more liberal with the content he is prepared to give that judgment: "There is no upper bound on the 'amount of content' in a single proposition, so a single, swift, righ, 'propositional episode' might (for all philosophical theory tells us) have so much content, in its brainish, non-sentential way, that an army of Prousts might fail to express it exhaustively in a library of volumes” ( “ Living on the Edge , ” 150 ) .”

4. Intellectual; highly intelligent.

   “I think we shall win. Pig 22, who is the first pusher for those who wish to abolish forks, is a highly lunatised and brainish wug.”

   “"Oh, has thou solved the integral? Here is a raise, my brainish boy!" He threw his time cards in the air And clapped his hands with joy.”

   “Brainish men are ambitious and incapable, while discreet men are timid and excessively conservative.”

5. Neurological; concerning the brain and nervous system.

   “According to them, any genuine entities or processes of which we may speak in mentalistic terms may be (as Place holds) and very probably are (as Smart holds) just physiological ones of a neural or brainish sort .”

   “In the early days of the cognitive revolution against the reigning ideas of behaviourism, the brainish beginnings of the movement – in the work of such pioneers as Norbert Wiener and WarrenMcCulloch– were swept aside by an ideology that called for ever higher levels of abstraction.”

6. Brain-like.

   “That is, his beliefs about the physical world (including, I think it must be admitted, even the belief that conscious experience can only emerge, somehow, from an appropriately brainish sort of physical object) are entirely arbitrary.”