cephalic

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Middle French céphalique, from Latin cephalicus (“head”), from Ancient Greek κεφαλικός (kephalikós, “capital”), from κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).

"Either by cephalic snuff or castle-building!" — The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford, Walter Scott
The proposition, and demonstration, were fairly written on a thin wafer, with ink composed of a cephalic tincture. — Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Jonathan Swift
I do affirm and avouch, and maintain, with my soul, and my pody, and my plood, look you, that I have no smells apout me, but such as a Christian ought to have, except the effluvia of tobacco, which is a cephalic, odoriferous, aromatic herb; and he is a son of a mountain goat who says otherwise. — The Adventures of Roderick Random, T. (Tobias) Smollett

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