acephalic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without a head.
adj
Without a leader.
adj
Deficient in the beginning, as a line of poetry that is missing its expected opening syllable.
adj
Lacking the first portion of the text. (of a manuscript)
Example Sentences
- "an acephalic statue"
- "[…] two acephalic sardines in mustard sauce are asleep in the rank darkness of their tin container."
- "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 […]"
- "[the] acephalic democracy [of Aleut village communities]"
- "The acephalic pentameters yield to tetrameters with a starting dactyl or anapest […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- Middle French céphaliquebor. English cephalic English acephalic From a- + cephalic.