acephalic

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Without a head.

    an acephalic statue

  2. 2.

    Characterized by a migraine aura without pain.

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  3. 3.

    Without a leader.

    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 […]

  4. 4.

    Deficient in the beginning, as a line of poetry that is missing its expected opening syllable.

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  5. 5.

    Lacking the first portion of the text. (of a manuscript)

词源

From a- + cephalic.

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