Citations:cerebation


 * 1864 — D.D. Home, Incidents in My Life, A. J. Davis & Co. (1864), page 169:
 * Dr. Carpenter speaks of their being produced by unconscious cerebation, and Dr. Morell, the philosopher, tells us that they are caused by "the reflex action of the mind."
 * 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.
 * 1890 — Charles Conrad Abbott, Outings at Odd Times, D. Appleton and Company (1875), page 25:
 * I have found it most fortunate that unconscious cerebation is so active when I wander about, toying, as here by the forest brook, with many forms of life.
 * 1912 — Gerald Villiers-Stuart, The White Shrine, A.C. McClurg & Co. (1912), page 41:
 * He depended on the terrors of the night and unconscious mental cerebation to bring her to a more reasonable frame of mind.
 * 1915 — E. F. Benson, The Oakleyites, Hodder and Stoughton (1915), page 254:
 * And having obtained her permission to smoke, he, by unconscious cerebation, whistled the first two bars of the Wedding March from Lohengrin, as he filled his pipe.
 * 1978 — A. J. Loveridge, British Colonial Experience in Educational Development: A Survey of Non-Formal Education for Rural and Agricultural Development, University College Cardiff Press (1978), ISBN 9780901426918, page 102:
 * The popular community development concept of "felt needs" has clearly had defects as a measure of priorities; the real needs have not been felt, let alone expressed, and imposed physical development may result in much greater cerebation as the result of new experience than the expression of thoughts based upon existing experience.
 * 1983 — John Welwood, Awakening the Heart: East/West Approaches to Psychotherapy and the Healing Relationship, Taylor & Francis (1983), ISBN 9780877732372, page 65:
 * Eventually, the repressed man, instead of experiencing things and persons, experiences by cerebation.
 * 1985 — Robert B. Greenblatt, Search the Scriptures: Modern Medicine and Biblical Personages, Barnes & Noble Books (1985), ISBN 0389205451, page 71:
 * This much is certain, that the dramatic change in Saul's cerebation was indirectly responsible for the seeding and growth of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean World.