cerebation
English edit
Etymology edit
Presumably a variant of cerebration, from Latin cerebrum, "brain", + -ation.
Noun edit
cerebation (plural cerebations)
- The act of using the mind; thought.
- 1875, Edward Heneage Dering, Sherborne; or, The House at the Four Ways, Smith, Elder & Co., page 284:
- What he said, when he did speak, (whether accidentally, or through unconscious cerebation, who shall say?) was just what he would have been likely to feel under the circumstance.