Brainish

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(obsolete) hot-headed; furious.

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) hot-headed; furious
2. (obsolete) Purely the work of the imagination, without serious meaning.
3. Cerebral; intellectual rather than physical or emotional.
4. Intellectual; highly intelligent.
5. Neurological; concerning the brain and nervous system.
6. Brain-like.

Example Sentences

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 .

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?

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 ?

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