| 释义 |
† acephal, a. and n. Obs. rare
Also asephal.
[a. Fr. acéphale, ad. late L. acephal-us: see Acephali.]
A. adj. Having no head or chief; = acephalous.
1549Compl. Scot. xx. 167 There is ane vthir sort of veyris callit battellis asephales, that is, quhen the pepil gadris togiddir in ane grit conuentione but the autorite of the superior.
B. n. A (supposed) headless animal; = acephalan.
1607Topsell Four-footed Beasts (1673) 9 The West region of Lybia and æthiopia have great store of Cynocephals, Babouns, and Acephals, beasts without a head, whose eyes and mouth are in their breasts. |