cerebation

English

Etymology

Presumably a variant of cerebration, from Latin cerebrum, "brain", + -ation.

Noun

cerebation (plural cerebations)

  1. 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.
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