brainish

adjective more brainish · most brainish

1. obsolete hot-headed; furious And, in this brainish apprehension, kills / The unseen good old man.
2. obsolete Purely the work of the imagination, without serious meaning. For the third, because the worke might in truth be iudged brainish, if nothing but amorous humor were handled therein, I haue inter-wouen matters historicall, which unexplaned, might defraud the mind of much content, as for example, in Queene Margarites Epistle to William de-la-Poole.
3. Cerebral; intellectual rather than physical or emotional. That such existences there are, I know; For, whether by the corporal organ framed, Or painted by a brainish fantasy Upon the inner sense, not once nor twice, But sundry times, have I beheld such things Since my tenth year, and most in this last past.
4. Intellectual; highly intelligent. I think we shall win. Pig 22, who is the first pusher for those who wish to abolish forks, is a highly lunatised and brainish wug.
5. Neurological; concerning the brain and nervous system. According to them, any genuine entities or processes of which we may speak in mentalistic terms may be (as Place holds) and very probably are (as Smart holds) just physiological ones of a neural or brainish sort .
6. Brain-like. That is, his beliefs about the physical world (including, I think it must be admitted, even the belief that conscious experience can only emerge, somehow, from an appropriately brainish sort of physical object) are entirely arbitrary.