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Meaning of brainial | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to the brain.
    uncommon
  2. Brainy; smart, pertaining to or exhibiting intellect.
    uncommon

Examples

“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,— ...”
“[...] divided into digestory, brainial, muscular, bronchial, cutaneous, and renal.”
“Its dominant spirit would map out the brainial^([sic]) hemispheres with their convolutions into sections, arbitrarily labeled, as phrenology has done with the cranium.”
“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.'”
“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 ...”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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