Acephalic
"Acephalic" in a Sentence (7 examples)
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 […]
All the texts, with the exception of the acephalic Homiletic Fragment I, begin with a large, plain capital letter […]
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