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English
Etymology
From a- + cephalic.
Adjective
acephalic (not comparable)
- Without a head.
- Synonyms: acephalous, headless
an acephalic statue
- (medicine, of a headache, dated) Characterized by a migraine aura without pain.[1]
- Without a leader.
- Synonyms: acephalous, leaderless
an acephalic society
- 1688, uncredited translator, A Dissertation Concerning Patriarchal and Metropolitical Authority by Emmanuel Schelstrate, London: Matthew Turner, , 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
1980, William S. Laughlin, Aleuts: Survivors of the Bering Land Bridge, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 144: acephalic democracy [of Aleut village communities]
- (prosody) Deficient in the beginning, as a line of poetry that is missing its expected opening syllable.
- Synonym: acephalous
1988, John Hollander, chapter 7, in Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language, Yale University Press, page 146:
- Lacking the first portion of the text. (of a manuscript)
- Synonym: acephalous
- Coordinate terms: acaudal, atelous
2014, Mark C. Amodio, “The Poems of the Vercelli Book”, in The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook, Chichester: Blackwell, page 176:All the texts, with the exception of the acephalic Homiletic Fragment I, begin with a large, plain capital letter […]
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- ^ Seymour Diamond, Diagnosing and Managing Headaches, Caddo, OK: Professional Communications, 3rd edition, 2001, p. 58.