单词 | brainish |
释义 | brainishadj. Now rare. Headstrong, passionate, rash. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impetuosity > [adjective] brothc1175 impetuous1398 headya1425 brainish1530 hot-brained1556 hot-headed1603 flashy1632 hot-reined1635 scapperboiling1673 warm1749 étourdi1750 torrentuous1840 impulsive1847 unpoised1872 torrential1877 Latin1914 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 307/1 Braynisshe, hedy, folisshe, selfe wylled. 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. To Rdr. sig. A2 v The Worke might in truth be iudged brainish. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. i. 10 And, in this brainish apprehension kills The vnseene good old man. View more context for this quotation 1759 Bailey's New Universal Eng. Dict. (ed. 4) Brainish, hot-headed, furious. 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair i. x. 9 But fy, thou brainish muse! what mean These vapourings, and brags of what by thee is seen? 1850 J. S. Blackie in tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 104 Thy son..whom, unwittingly of life I reft In a brainish moment. 1958 Dominion-News (Morgantown, W. Va.) 3 May 7/5 A transformation is seen in her character as she strives to emerge from..Madge's brainish kid sister who matches the boys in racing and swimming to a young lady, pretty and demure. 1992 New Scientist 13 June 48/1 In the early days of the cognitive revolution against the reigning ideas of behaviourism, the brainish beginnings of the movement..were swept aside by an ideology that called for ever higher levels of abstraction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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