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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To use the power of reason; think. synonym: think.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To have the brain in action; exhibit brain-action. Also cerebrize.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb (Physiol.) To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To think or cogitate; especially so as to make inferences or decisions or to solve problems.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Back-formation from cerebration, act of thinking, from Latin cerebrum, brain; see cerebrum.]

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From Latin cerebrum ("brain"); likely Back-formation from cerebration.

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Examples

  • The cerebrate was a leader, a strategist, not a fighter.

    Queen of Blades AARON ROSENBERG 2006

  • I guess politics never stops even when we cerebrate the life of a crucial in our history.

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  • They argue, that the states have the power to regulate the particulars of licensing a religous ceremony that alters the legal status of the folk involved, they cerebrate a court overturning the peoples will on the basis of federal law - in this case the law.

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  • Al Jazeera removed all the comments including mine exposing their spin when questioned since when Muslim cerebrate Christmas?

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  • The other cerebrate hunched closer to the strange pulsing oblong, like a protective mother warily circling her prize egg.

    Queen of Blades AARON ROSENBERG 2006

  • Then the Overmind summoned it as well, and the cerebrate called its brood together, linking them tightly for travel through the warp.

    Queen of Blades AARON ROSENBERG 2006

  • Thanks for keeping up the amusing blog and encouraging UU's to actually look at one another while they cerebrate!

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  • “I would speak with you, o Zasz of the cerebrate.”

    Queen of Blades AARON ROSENBERG 2006

  • The second cerebrate lifted its front end toward the archway and, responding to its mental commands, the lesser zerg pulled away from the cocoon and charged toward the Terrans.

    Queen of Blades AARON ROSENBERG 2006

  • It was the other cerebrate, Daggoth, the one that in his dreams had given Kerrigan the use of his warriors for her assault on the Amerigo.

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