Cerebration

Human cerebration is the most important rill we know of, and both the 'capacity' and the 'intensity' factor thereof may be treated as infinitesimal. ❋ Unknown (1920)

And the theory which we have now before us sanctions the doctrine that it may be so regarded, if only we remember that its causal activity depends upon its identity with the obverse aspect known as cerebration, without which identity in apparent duality neither volition nor cerebration could be the cause which in fact they are. ❋ George John Romanes (1871)

Indeed, they reduce themselves to these two principal propositions: for some the unconscious is a purely physiological activity, a "cerebration"; for others it is a gradual diminution of consciousness which exists without being bound to me -- i.e., to the principal consciousness. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)

The individual may appear entirely confident in what they are saying, speaking at length without pause, without displaying any deliberation, cerebration, contemplation or any other forms of thought whatsoever. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The purity of language and the precedence of language over cerebration derives from his visual conception of words. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Using computers traditionally has been associated with Mr. Spock-style cerebration, the ultimate kind of left-brain activity. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The ripple of power and cerebration outclassed any party political conference I have attended. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Our LSD sessions were the opposite of parties; they brought on bouts of crushing introspection and spirals of anxious cerebration. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Fear impedes cerebration and people make dumb moves when emotions run high. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Too often, as we look at a pointillist canvas, some obstacle seems to intercede between the eye and the heart; perhaps it's the dazzle of technique, or the chill of theory, cerebration and scientific calculation. ❋ Francine Prose (2007)

I followed him out with my eyes; and as I did so, by some odd trick of unconscious cerebration, there came surging into my head the phrase, “The Moreau Hollows” — was it? ❋ Herbert George (2006)

I remember it was very "French", with more cerebration than action "just exactly what subtle nuance of feeling am I experiencing at this moment?" ❋ Unknown (2005)

In a more complete statement: “The difference between art and science is not that between feeling and fact, intuition and inference, delight and deliberation, synthesis and analysis, sensation and cerebration, concreteness and abstraction, passion and action, mediacy and immediacy, or truth and beauty, but rather a difference in domination of certain specific characteristics of symbols” ❋ Giovannelli, Alessandro (2005)

Cornelius Gallagher, the goateed Irish wunderkind at Oceana, has found a most pleasant and time-saving strategy and locale for culinary cerebration-in bed. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Quit being [cerebral] about [kissing] me, [just do it]! ❋ Geronimo1982 (2013)

That [professor] has [quite] [high] cerebrality. ❋ Whoa-ho-ho-ho! (2006)

[I try] to avoid [meetings] with such cerebrities. All they have to say is in their [books]. ❋ Mike (2003)

[Cerebellum] ❋ Larstait (2003)

RPAP "Cerebrating" [37] [years] of [business]. ❋ Johnny One Hand (2009)

[Won] [Hung Low] cerebrated about how to cerebrate his [birthday]. ❋ JB (2005)

"You hear [the news]? Dave and [Jennifer] finally had their kid. Problem is... [the baby's] black! Dave went fucking cerebral." ❋ HarvesterOfSorrow (2010)

"Dude, [why do] you constantly [cerebrate]? Just [get to] the phuckin point!" ❋ Rtw1313 (2007)

[Did you know] there is [only one] [confirmed] case of Cerebral Briggsy in existence today? ❋ Rubber Sheath (2006)

The movie buff had a bad case of "cerebral constipation" as he [choked] [under pressure] when the cute waitress asked him for the name of his favorite [romantic comedy]. ❋ ZonaCat Hansen (2008)