† polycephalistn.
Obsolete.
A person who has many heads. In quot. figurative: a person who acknowledges many rulers.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > authority > subjection > [noun] > one subject to authority > of a monarch or ruler > with many rulers
polycephalist1659
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα iv. xix. 541 Both which methods must have left the..Churches of Christ either Acephalists, confused without any head, or Polycephalists, burdened with many heads.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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- to cross a bridge when one comes to it
- to cross a cheque
- to cross a fortune-teller's hand with silver
- to cross a fortuneteller's hand with silver
- to cross and jostle
- to cross cross the path get in front of and jostle
- to cross cross the path of and jostle
- to cross legs
- to cross on
- to cross one's fingers
- to cross one's heart
- to cross one's mind, etc
- to cross one's mind, etc rarely to cross one
- to cross over
- to cross shins
- to cross swords
- to cross that bridge when one comes to it
- to cross the bows of
- to cross the bows of a ship
- to cross the bridge when one comes to it
- to cross the dark river
- to cross the floor
- to cross the hawse
- to cross the path of