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Brain, V: [as In "to Brain"] To Rebuke Bluntly, But Not Pointedly

brain, v: [as in "to brain"]
To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source
of error in an opponent.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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