Word of the Day: EXCEREBROSE

ETYMOLOGY
from ex- (prefix) + Latin cerebrum (brain) + -ose

EXAMPLE
…It brands him at once as an excerebrose scallywag, an eviscerated elasmobranch, worthy of being hurled neck and crop along with Mendelssohn into the limbo of discredit desuetude…

From: The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular,
Volume XXXVII, 1896

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