acephalic

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Without a head. not-comparable
    — an acephalic statue
  2. Characterized by a migraine aura without pain. dated,not-comparable
  3. Without a leader. not-comparable
    — an acephalic society
  4. Deficient in the beginning, as a line of poetry that is missing its expected opening syllable. not-comparable
    — The acephalic pentameters yield to tetrameters with a starting dactyl or anapest […]
  5. Lacking the first portion of the text. (of a manuscript) not-comparable
    — All the texts, with the exception of the acephalic Homiletic Fragment I, begin with a large, plain capital letter […]

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English a-
English cephalic
English acephalic
From a- + cephalic.
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