Definition of Acephalous. Meaning of Acephalous. Synonyms of Acephalous

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Definition of Acephalous

Acephalous
Acephalous A*ceph"a*lous, a. [See Acephal.] 1. Headless. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Without a distinct head; -- a term applied to bivalve mollusks. 3. (Bot.) Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries. 4. Without a leader or chief. 5. Wanting the beginning. A false or acephalous structure of sentence. --De Quincey. 6. (Pros.) Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry. --Brande.

Meaning of Acephalous from wikipedia

- In anthropology, an acephalous society (from the Gr**** ἀκέφαλος "headless") is a society which lacks political leaders or hierarchies. Such groups are...
- Look up acephalous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Acephalous (Gr****: "without a head") may refer to: Acephalous society Acephalous line Acephali...
- An acephalous or headless line is a variety of catalectic line in a poem which does not conform to its accepted metre, due to the first syllable's omission...
- less certain: the fourth book appears to have contained many poems in acephalous hipponacteans with double choriambic expansion, and possibly in other...
- part dismembered, their mouth and eyes deposited on the breast. The term acephalous (akephaloi) was applied to people without heads whose facial parts such...
- communications technology). A terrorist network could be designed to be either acephalous (headless like Al-Qaeda after Bin Laden) or polycephalous (hydra-headed...
- (Spatterjay) "The Sea of Death" (n/a) "Alien Archaeology" (Cormac/Gabbleduck) "Acephalous Dreams" (Polity) "Snow in the Desert" (n/a) "Choudapt" (n/a) "Adaptogenic"...
- 330–356) was a politician of the Roman Empire. In the 18th century an acephalous statue of Mavortius was discovered in Puteoli, then Pozzuoli (near Naples...
- verse-end verse-begin ×× (aeolic base) × ("acephalous line") no anceps syllables ˘ ¯ ¯ hipponactean × × | ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ | ˘ ¯ ¯ hagesic****an × | ¯ ˘ ˘ ¯ | ˘...
- related bands, or a more hierarchical chiefdom. Lineage-bonded societies, acephalous societies predicated on claims of a common ancestor. Band governments...