cerebation

English

Etymology

Presumably a variant of cerebration, from Latin cerebrum, "brain", + -ation.

Noun

cerebation (plural cerebations)

1. The act of using the mind; thought.
   • 1875, Edward Heneage Dering, Sherborne; or, The House at the Four Ways, Smith, Elder & Co. (1875), page 284:

     What he said, when he did speak, (whether accidentally, or through unconscious cerebation, who shall say?) was just what he would have been likely to feel under the circumstance.