brainworkn.

1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iii. sig. E3 Oh Philocalia, in heauy sadnes & vnwanton phrase there lies all the braine worke, by what meanes I coulde fall into a miserable blanke verse presently.

1682 J. Phillips News from Tory-land 7 Wine's ill bestowed upon him here in London, that does not deserve the weekly Wages of a Peny-post-man, for a Months Brain-Work.

1703 tr. L. de Lahontan New Voy. N.-Amer. II. 165 I am fully convinc'd that Brain-work infeebles the Body extreamly.

1783 J. Brown Dial. Countryman & Clergyman 31 The paper, printing, and binding, without a shilling allowed for brainwork, amounted to fifty thousand pieces of silver.

1845 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 13 June (1954) I. 195 It always gives one satisfaction to see the evidence of brain work.

1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant III. xi. 252 Men who are wise do no brainwork save in summer.

1931 J. S. Huxley What dare I Think? ii. 69 Pure brain-work like that of a mathematician.

2008 T. R. Smith Child 44 208 The brainwork of investigations, the presentation of evidence, interrogations and ultimately the prosecution itself were the duties of the State's investigative team, the procurator's office and their team of sledovatyel, lawyers.