Word Meanings - EXCEREBRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of removing or beating out the brains.

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• BEATIFIC; BEATIFICAL
  Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." South. -- Be`a*tif"ic*al*ly, adv.
• BEATIFICATION
  The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage
• BEATIFICATE
  To beatify. Fuller.
• BEATER
  1. One who, or that which, beats. 2. A person who beats up game for the hunters. Black.
• BRAINSICKLY
  In a brainsick manner.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
• REMOVED
  1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
• BEATIFY
  To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized. (more info) 1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring
• BRAINSICK
  Disordered in the understanding; giddy; thoughtless. -- Brain"sick*ness, n.
• REMOVE
  1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
• BEATITUDE
  Beatification. Milman. Syn. -- Blessedness; felicity; happiness. (more info) 1. Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss. 2. Any one of the nine declarations , made in the Sermon on the Mount , with regard to the blessedness of those who
• BEATEN
  1. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. "A broad and beaten way." Milton. "Beaten gold." Shak. 2. Vanquished; conquered; baffled. 3. Exhausted; tired out. 4. Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. 5. Tried; practiced. Beau.
• BEATING
  Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n. (more info) 1. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows. 2. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.
• REMOVABLE
  Admitting of being removed. Ayliffe. -- Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty (-, n.
• BEAT
  A sudden swelling or reënforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation
• BEATH
  To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood. Spenser.
• REMOVAL
  The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
• DRUMBEAT
  The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• TRABEATED
  Furnished with an entablature.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• DEADBEAT
  Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.
• CHALYBEATE
  Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.
• TRABEATION
  See ENTABLATURE
• BROWBEATING
  The act of bearing down, abashing, or disconcerting, with stern looks, suspercilious manners, or confident assertions. The imperious browbeating and scorn of great men. L'Estrange.
• DRY-BEAT
  To beat severely. Shak.
• IRREMOVABILITY
  The quality or state of being irremovable; immovableness.
• TO-BEAT
  To beat thoroughly or severely. Layamon.
• GOLD-BEATING
  The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.
• STORM-BEAT
  Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.
• BROWBEAT
  To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten.