brainial

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brain +‎ -ial

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brainial

(uncommon) Of or pertaining to the brain.
- 1840, William Moore Wooler, On the Philosophy of Temperance, and the physical causes of moral sadness, page 65:
  In short, he became dead drunk, as it were, from brainial excitement. It is very true that genius is nearly allied to madness; and it becomes all, but particularly persons of a literary turn of mind, to take warning, when tempted,— ...
- 1865, Thomas Scott Lambert, Systematic Human Physiology, Anatomy, and Hygiene: Being an Analysis and Synthesis of the Human System, with Practical Conclusions, page 381:
  [...] divided into digestory, brainial, muscular, bronchial, cutaneous, and renal.
- 1895, Werner's Magazine: A Magazine of Expression, page 137:
  Its dominant spirit would map out the brainial^[sic] hemispheres with their convolutions into sections, arbitrarily labeled, as phrenology has done with the cranium.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:brainial.
(uncommon) Brainy; smart, pertaining to or exhibiting intellect.
- 1875, Food for the Brain, in The Sanitary Record: A Journal of Public Health (Ernest Hart, ed.), page 24, quoting another paper:
  Preparatory to this he invited some of his friends to a banquet, which is thus taken off by one of the daily papers : 'Last evening a party of gentlemen ate a 'brainial' dinner at Jones's restaurant, in Broadway, their host being Dr. T. S. Lambert.'
- 2005, Paul B. Skousen, Harold K. Moon, Brother Paul's Mormon Bathroon Reader, Cedar Fort, →ISBN, page 43:
  Be they called playing cards or face cards, the question remains, what brought about the banishment of this brainial banter? Brother Paul takes a closer look. First up, the origins of playing cards. ORIGIN: Nobody knows ...

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