- Look up
acephalous in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Acephalous (Gr****: "without a head") may
refer to:
Acephalous society Acephalous line Acephali...
- An
acephalous or
headless line is a
variety of
catalectic line in a poem
which does not
conform to its
accepted metre, due to the
first syllable's omission...
- In anthropology, an
acephalous society (from the Gr**** ἀκέφαλος "headless") is a
society which lacks political leaders or hierarchies. Such
groups are...
- less certain: the
fourth book
appears to have
contained many
poems in
acephalous hipponacteans with
double choriambic expansion, and
possibly in other...
- part dismembered,
their mouth and eyes
deposited on the breast. The term
acephalous (akephaloi) was
applied to
people without heads whose facial parts such...
- of
Chile In
office December 24, 1829 –
February 18, 1830
Preceded by
Acephalous executive Succeeded by
Francisco Ruiz-Tagle
Portales Acting President...
- our world.
Since 2015, Ali has been
working on
paintings she
calls The
Acephalous Series,
featuring figures described as
gender conscious,
potentially ****ual...
- (Spatterjay) "The Sea of Death" (n/a) "Alien Archaeology" (Cormac/Gabbleduck) "
Acephalous Dreams" (Polity) "Snow in the Desert" (n/a) "Choudapt" (n/a) "Adaptogenic"...
-
communications technology). A
terrorist network could be
designed to be
either acephalous (headless like Al-Qaeda
after Bin Laden) or
polycephalous (hydra-headed...
-
alternatives to
chiefdoms were the non-hierarchical
systems of
complex acephalous communities, with a
pronounced autonomy of single-family households. These...
