EXCEREBROSE ADJ. wanting brains, brainless ...1727 obs. ETYMOLOGY from ex- (prefix) + Latin cerebrum (brain) + -ose FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1727 - EXCEREBROSE (excerebrosus, L.) brainsick, wanting brains From: The Universal Etymological English Dictionary - Nathan Bailey EXAMPLE "...That Beethoven was the parasitic pensioner and fulsome eulogist of the Philharmonic Society immeasurably outweighs, in my opinion, any slim or niggling services he may have rendered the evolution of art. It brands him at once as an excerebrose scallywag, an eviscerated elasmobranch, worthy of being hurled neck and crop along with Mendelssohn into the limbo of discredited desuetude..." From: The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular Is Beethoven Played Out By George Verdant Bouncingham Vol. 37, December 1, 1896
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