Meaning of acephalic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Without a head.
   not-comparable
2. Characterized by a migraine aura without pain.
   dated, not-comparable
3. Without a leader.
   not-comparable
4. Deficient in the beginning, as a line of poetry that is missing its expected opening syllable.
   not-comparable
5. Lacking the first portion of the text. (of a manuscript)
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“an acephalic statue”

“[…] two acephalic sardines in mustard sauce are asleep in the rank darkness of their tin container.”

“an acephalic society”

“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]”

“The acephalic pentameters yield to tetrameters with a starting dactyl or anapest […]”

“All the texts, with the exception of the acephalic Homiletic Fragment I, begin with a large, plain capital letter […]”

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