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Etymology

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See cerebral.

Noun

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cerebricity (uncountable)

  1. (very rare) Brainpower; the faculty of intelligence.
    • 1892, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups:
      Your incident is a typical example of cerebral induction from a source containing stored cerebricity.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cerebricity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)