a. rare. [ad. L. cerebrōsus head-strong, passionate, f. cerebrum brain.] ‘Brain-sick, mad-brained, wilful, stubborn’ (Bailey, 1727).
Hence † Cerebrosity.
a. 1586. Sidney, Wanst. Play, Wks. (1674), 622 (D.). Till I have endoctrinated your plumbeous cerebrosities.
1647–8. Wood, Life (1848), 36. To admit … a meer frog of Helicon to croak the cataracts of his plumbeous cerebrosity before your sagacious ingenuities.
1656. Heylin, Extraneus Vapulans, 38.
