acephalousadj.

Brit.

/(ˌ)eɪˈsɛfələs/,

/(ˌ)eɪˈsɛfl̩əs/,

/(ˌ)eɪˈkɛfələs/,

/(ˌ)eɪˈkɛfl̩əs/, U.S.

/eɪˈsɛfələs/

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French acéphale , -ous suffix; Latin acephalus , -ous suffix.

Etymology: < French acéphale having or recognizing no ruler or chief, leaderless (1375 in Middle French as †acephale ; rare before late 17th cent.), lacking the head, headless (1533 in Middle French; rare before 1762), lacking the first syllable (1655 (in the passage translated in quot. 1746 at sense 3a) or earlier) and its etymon classical Latin acephalus lacking the first syllable (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also anonymous (late 4th cent.), headless (8th cent. in a British source), leaderless (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources), without a heading (1285 in a British source; < ancient Greek ἀκέϕαλος headless, without beginning, in Hellenistic Greek also lacking the first syllable, in Byzantine Greek also leaderless < ἀ- a- prefix⁶ + κεϕαλή head: see cephalo- comb. form) + -ous suffix. Compare earlier acephal adj., acephalic adj., and also earlier acephalist n.

1. Having or recognizing no ruler, head, or chief; = headless adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of power > [adjective] > without a ruler or chief

kinglessc1325

acephalc1550

guideless1561

acephalic1656

acephalous1715

chiefless1742

1715 tr. C. Freschot Compl. Hist. Treaty Utrecht II. i. 31 William II. and III. held the Principality of Orange as Acephalous [Fr. Acephale].

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. 21/2 In some Writers, the acephalous Hereticks are called Acepalites [sic].

1790 C. Plowden Considerations on Fallibility of Holy See v. 86 A sentence issued by an acephalous tribunal.

1806 New & Compl. Amer. Encycl. II. 316/2 Some of them..got the name of acephalous priests, because they declined to live in community with the bishop.

1857 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. II. 324 Regality was the organic element of the commonwealth..an acephalous body politic was inconceivable.

1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer I. 502 The acephalous state of the Elian division of the army.

1902 Munsey's Mag. Mar. 833/2 The last is such a leader as the unruly and acephalous Extreme Left, composed of radicals, republicans, and socialists, may boast.

1968 R. Hargreaves Bloodybacks x. 264 In official British eyes, the acephalous Continental Congress had no substantive existence.

1992 J. Silverberg & J. P. Gray Aggression & Peacefulness in Humans & Other Primates 193 Bands are politically autonomous and essentially acephalous.

a. Zoology. Of an invertebrate: having no part of the body specially organized as a head or brain. Also: of or relating to such an animal. Cf. Acephala n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having no head

acephalous1728

headless1806

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Acephalous Worms are frequent.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. ix. 268 The acephalous or bivalve Molluscans.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 166/2 The mouth..in the acephalous annelida is directed forwards.

1879 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (ed. 5) I. ii. §49. 49 The two primary divisions of the [Molluscous] series,—the cephalous and the acephalous.

1983 G. Lloyd Sci., Folklore & Ideol. i. 40 It acted..as an obstacle to the recognition of the possibility of a decentralised or acephalous nervous system.

2003 F. Punzo Desert Arthropods iii. 71 Acephalous larvae..lack a head capsule, and are indicative of flies of the genus Musca as well as other Diptera.

b. Of a person, animal, or malformed fetus: lacking the head, headless. Also: of or relating to the condition of acephaly (acephaly n.). Also in extended use and figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [adjective] > without

headlessOE

acephalous1731

acephalic1816

1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Acephalous, without a head.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Acephalus Some modern travellers still pretend to find Acephalous people in America.

1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 311 I take the liberty to remit you an account of the delivery of a very curious acephalous monster.

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 471/2 Congenital malformations, such as acephalous and anencephalous states.

1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 391 With so strong an inducement for fishmongers to decapitate congers, acephalous specimens would probably be..common.

1888 Lancet 15 Dec. 1180/2 Acephalous or acardiac monsters were developed in quite a another manner—namely, through abnormal vascular communications between twins.

1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 211 Laughing—at the thought that the cold, acephalous body of your door ornament is being spotted by wheeling vultures in the Mindanaoan wilds.

1989 Jrnl. Middle Atlantic Archaeol. 5 91 These skeletons were usually acephalous.

2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Oct. 33 A musician whose overly tall top hat renders her acephalous, or headless, intermittently plays a saw with a cello bow.

a. Prosody. Designating a metrical line that lacks the first syllable expected according to regular metre.In quot. 1828 in extended use of a sentence.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [adjective] > relating to or consisting of lines > other types of line

long and short1715

acephalous1746

asynartetic1847

pericopic1913

1746 tr. C. Lancelot et al. New Method learning Greek Tongue II. ix. 348 They have acephalous. or headless Verses [Fr. des vers acephales], which commence with a short Syllable instead of a long one.

1810 B. H. Smart Pract. Gram. Eng. Pronunc. 393 The following line..may be called an acephalous dissyllabic tetraped.

1828 T. De Quincey Elements Rhetoric in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 905/2 A false or acephalous structure of sentence.

1912 J. W. White Verse of Greek Comedy xii. 259 Note the combination of acephalous and full dimeters in the first intermediate period of the following ode.

1961 A. E. Keep tr. W. F. Schirmer John Lydgate ix. 71 The acephalous, or ‘headless’ line, in which the first syllable has been cut off, leaving a monosyllabic first beat: Of musíke, // ay díde his bísynés.

1997 L. P. E. Parker Songs Aristophanes ii. 503 There is just one example of what appears to be an acephalous dactylic tetrameter in Aeschylus.

b. Of a book, manuscript, or piece of writing: lacking a beginning.

ΚΠ

1833 J. Lempriere Bibliotheca Classica (new ed.) II. 1114/1 The last five books of the Collections remain entire; the third is acephalous, wanting the commencement.

1851 Church of Eng. Q. Rev. July 218 The publication of this important and carefully-edited ‘Remonstrance’, as (we think) he has correctly termed the acephalous manuscript of John Purvey.

1915 Classical Q. 9 26 It is hardly conceivable that Ciriaco bought an acephalous book and himself added the beginning.

1981 J. Gantz Early Irish Myths & Sagas 21 Acephalous accounts of ‘The Intoxication of the Ulaid’ and ‘The Cattle Raid of Cúailnge’.

1997 Speculum 72 300 An acephalous fragment of a homily or commentary on a Gospel (the first folio of the quire is missing).

4. Botany. Not capitate (capitate adj. 2); spec. †(of an ovary or pericarp) not terminated by the style, but having the style arising from the base or side (obsolete).

ΚΠ

1816 London Med. Repository 6 325 A regular fruit, divided to its base into many dry or succulent unilocular acephalous pericarps.

1894 Brit. Gardening 19 Jan. 31/1 An acephalous ovary is one with the style springing from its base instead of from is apex, as in Labiateæ.

1977 Madoqua 10 22/1 Welwitschia mirabilis is an acephalous plant, its shoot apex becoming overgrown and obliterated by tissue of the developing stem.

1995 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 82 502/2 Stigma capitate, 0.4–1 mm thick, yellow-green or dull brown, or style acephalous and stigma non-functional.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	acephalous
释义	acephalousadj. Brit. /(ˌ)eɪˈsɛfələs/, /(ˌ)eɪˈsɛfl̩əs/, /(ˌ)eɪˈkɛfələs/, /(ˌ)eɪˈkɛfl̩əs/, U.S. /eɪˈsɛfələs/ Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French acéphale , -ous suffix; Latin acephalus , -ous suffix. Etymology: < French acéphale having or recognizing no ruler or chief, leaderless (1375 in Middle French as †acephale ; rare before late 17th cent.), lacking the head, headless (1533 in Middle French; rare before 1762), lacking the first syllable (1655 (in the passage translated in quot. 1746 at sense 3a) or earlier) and its etymon classical Latin acephalus lacking the first syllable (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also anonymous (late 4th cent.), headless (8th cent. in a British source), leaderless (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources), without a heading (1285 in a British source; < ancient Greek ἀκέϕαλος headless, without beginning, in Hellenistic Greek also lacking the first syllable, in Byzantine Greek also leaderless < ἀ- a- prefix⁶ + κεϕαλή head: see cephalo- comb. form) + -ous suffix. Compare earlier acephal adj., acephalic adj., and also earlier acephalist n. 1. Having or recognizing no ruler, head, or chief; = headless adj. 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of power > [adjective] > without a ruler or chief kinglessc1325 acephalc1550 guideless1561 acephalic1656 acephalous1715 chiefless1742 1715 tr. C. Freschot Compl. Hist. Treaty Utrecht II. i. 31 William II. and III. held the Principality of Orange as Acephalous [Fr. Acephale]. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. 21/2 In some Writers, the acephalous Hereticks are called Acepalites [sic]. 1790 C. Plowden Considerations on Fallibility of Holy See v. 86 A sentence issued by an acephalous tribunal. 1806 New & Compl. Amer. Encycl. II. 316/2 Some of them..got the name of acephalous priests, because they declined to live in community with the bishop. 1857 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. II. 324 Regality was the organic element of the commonwealth..an acephalous body politic was inconceivable. 1858 W. E. Gladstone Stud. Homer I. 502 The acephalous state of the Elian division of the army. 1902 Munsey's Mag. Mar. 833/2 The last is such a leader as the unruly and acephalous Extreme Left, composed of radicals, republicans, and socialists, may boast. 1968 R. Hargreaves Bloodybacks x. 264 In official British eyes, the acephalous Continental Congress had no substantive existence. 1992 J. Silverberg & J. P. Gray Aggression & Peacefulness in Humans & Other Primates 193 Bands are politically autonomous and essentially acephalous. 2. a. Zoology. Of an invertebrate: having no part of the body specially organized as a head or brain. Also: of or relating to such an animal. Cf. Acephala n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having no head acephalous1728 headless1806 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Acephalous Worms are frequent. 1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals I. ix. 268 The acephalous or bivalve Molluscans. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 166/2 The mouth..in the acephalous annelida is directed forwards. 1879 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (ed. 5) I. ii. §49. 49 The two primary divisions of the [Molluscous] series,—the cephalous and the acephalous. 1983 G. Lloyd Sci., Folklore & Ideol. i. 40 It acted..as an obstacle to the recognition of the possibility of a decentralised or acephalous nervous system. 2003 F. Punzo Desert Arthropods iii. 71 Acephalous larvae..lack a head capsule, and are indicative of flies of the genus Musca as well as other Diptera. b. Of a person, animal, or malformed fetus: lacking the head, headless. Also: of or relating to the condition of acephaly (acephaly n.). Also in extended use and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [adjective] > without headlessOE acephalous1731 acephalic1816 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Acephalous, without a head. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Acephalus Some modern travellers still pretend to find Acephalous people in America. 1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 311 I take the liberty to remit you an account of the delivery of a very curious acephalous monster. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 471/2 Congenital malformations, such as acephalous and anencephalous states. 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 391 With so strong an inducement for fishmongers to decapitate congers, acephalous specimens would probably be..common. 1888 Lancet 15 Dec. 1180/2 Acephalous or acardiac monsters were developed in quite a another manner—namely, through abnormal vascular communications between twins. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 211 Laughing—at the thought that the cold, acephalous body of your door ornament is being spotted by wheeling vultures in the Mindanaoan wilds. 1989 Jrnl. Middle Atlantic Archaeol. 5 91 These skeletons were usually acephalous. 2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Oct. 33 A musician whose overly tall top hat renders her acephalous, or headless, intermittently plays a saw with a cello bow. 3. a. Prosody. Designating a metrical line that lacks the first syllable expected according to regular metre.In quot. 1828 in extended use of a sentence. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > part of poem > [adjective] > relating to or consisting of lines > other types of line long and short1715 acephalous1746 asynartetic1847 pericopic1913 1746 tr. C. Lancelot et al. New Method learning Greek Tongue II. ix. 348 They have acephalous. or headless Verses [Fr. des vers acephales], which commence with a short Syllable instead of a long one. 1810 B. H. Smart Pract. Gram. Eng. Pronunc. 393 The following line..may be called an acephalous dissyllabic tetraped. 1828 T. De Quincey Elements Rhetoric in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 905/2 A false or acephalous structure of sentence. 1912 J. W. White Verse of Greek Comedy xii. 259 Note the combination of acephalous and full dimeters in the first intermediate period of the following ode. 1961 A. E. Keep tr. W. F. Schirmer John Lydgate ix. 71 The acephalous, or ‘headless’ line, in which the first syllable has been cut off, leaving a monosyllabic first beat: Of musíke, // ay díde his bísynés. 1997 L. P. E. Parker Songs Aristophanes ii. 503 There is just one example of what appears to be an acephalous dactylic tetrameter in Aeschylus. b. Of a book, manuscript, or piece of writing: lacking a beginning. ΚΠ 1833 J. Lempriere Bibliotheca Classica (new ed.) II. 1114/1 The last five books of the Collections remain entire; the third is acephalous, wanting the commencement. 1851 Church of Eng. Q. Rev. July 218 The publication of this important and carefully-edited ‘Remonstrance’, as (we think) he has correctly termed the acephalous manuscript of John Purvey. 1915 Classical Q. 9 26 It is hardly conceivable that Ciriaco bought an acephalous book and himself added the beginning. 1981 J. Gantz Early Irish Myths & Sagas 21 Acephalous accounts of ‘The Intoxication of the Ulaid’ and ‘The Cattle Raid of Cúailnge’. 1997 Speculum 72 300 An acephalous fragment of a homily or commentary on a Gospel (the first folio of the quire is missing). 4. Botany. Not capitate (capitate adj. 2); spec. †(of an ovary or pericarp) not terminated by the style, but having the style arising from the base or side (obsolete). ΚΠ 1816 London Med. Repository 6 325 A regular fruit, divided to its base into many dry or succulent unilocular acephalous pericarps. 1894 Brit. Gardening 19 Jan. 31/1 An acephalous ovary is one with the style springing from its base instead of from is apex, as in Labiateæ. 1977 Madoqua 10 22/1 Welwitschia mirabilis is an acephalous plant, its shoot apex becoming overgrown and obliterated by tissue of the developing stem. 1995 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 82 502/2 Stigma capitate, 0.4–1 mm thick, yellow-green or dull brown, or style acephalous and stigma non-functional. 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