acephalic

Meanings

adjectiveacephalic (not comparable)

not comparableWithout a head.
an acephalic statue
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[…] two acephalic sardines in mustard sauce are asleep in the rank darkness of their tin container.
1990, Mark Leyner, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, New York: Harmony Books, page 5
Synonyms: acephalous, headless
datednot comparablemedicineCharacterized by a migraine aura without pain.
not comparableWithout a leader.
an acephalic society
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1688, uncredited translator, A Dissertation Concerning Patriarchal and Metropolitical Authority by Emmanuel Schelstrate, London: Matthew Turner, [Introduction], p. xx, […] he endeavours not only to shew that the English Church was Acephalic, that is, without a Head; but also Autocephalic, that is under its own proper Jurisdiction only […]
[the] acephalic democracy [of Aleut village communities]
1980, William S. Laughlin, Aleuts: Survivors of the Bering Land Bridge, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 144
Synonyms: acephalous, leaderless
not comparablehuman sciencesDeficient in the beginning, as a line of poetry that is missing its expected opening syllable.
The acephalic pentameters yield to tetrameters with a starting dactyl or anapest […]
1988, John Hollander, chapter 7, in Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language, Yale University Press, page 146
Synonyms: acephalous
not comparableLacking the first portion of the text. (of a manuscript)
All the texts, with the exception of the acephalic Homiletic Fragment I, begin with a large, plain capital letter […]
2014, Mark C. Amodio, “The Poems of the Vercelli Book”, in The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook, Chichester: Blackwell, page 176
Synonyms: acephalous