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Acephalous   Listen
adjective
Acephalous  adj.  
1.
Headless.
2.
(Zool.) 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."
6.
(Pros.) Deficient at the beginning, as a line of poetry.





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"Acephalous" Quotes from Famous Books



... monopoly. Thy claim is founded on anatomy, mine on jurisprudence. Shall matter prevail over mind? Shall medicine, the most uncertain of sciences, override law, the perfection of human reason? It is but to the vulgar observation that thou appearest to have a head at all; in the eye of the law thou art acephalous." ...
— The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales • Richard Garnett
... the sap cannot rise to the top—it stops at the belly-band and there coagulates. Canadians of any faith are scarce so broad in the religious beam as Texas Baptists, who believe that unless a man be treated to a sanctified plunge- bath by some acephalous shouter he is headed direct for hell. Still it is something of a shock to hear even a Canadian archbishop branding four-fifths of the people of this world as bastards. It makes one ashamed of the genus homo to hear ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann


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