Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Literally, those who have no head or chief.
- A class of levelers, mentioned in the laws of Henry I. of England, who would acknowledge no head or superior.
- A fabulous nation in Africa, reported by ancient writers to have no heads: identified by some with the Blemmyes, a historical race.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.
- noun plural A Christian sect without a leader.
- noun plural Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.
- noun plural A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A people reported by
Herodotus and Josephus to have no or removable heads. - noun : Bishops and certain
clergymen not under regulardiocesan control. - noun A class of
levelers in the time of King Henry I. - noun Plural form of
acephalus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Regionary clerics, who are also called clerici vagantes and acephali, were those who were ordained without title to a special church.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Paris was never captured again, but the _acephali_ were devouring the land.
The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893
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Antheric, the noble pastor, with his virgin-like face, led three hundred footmen into the fight and slew six hundred of the _acephali_.
The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893
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An old Indian, whom we met at Carichana, and who boasted of having often eaten human flesh, had seen these acephali “with his own eyes.”
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An old Indian, whom we met at Carichana, and who boasted of having often eaten human flesh, had seen these acephali "with his own eyes."
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The acephali, without a king or a bishop, were separated above three hundred years from the patriarchs of Alexandria, who had accepted the communion of
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Nestorius and Eutyches was filled by a thousand shades of language and opinion; the acephali [73] of Egypt, and the Roman pontiffs, of equal valor, though of unequal strength, may be found at the two extremities of the theological scale.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The acephali, without a king or a bishop, were separated above three hundred years from the patriarchs of Alexandria, who had accepted the communion of Constantinople, without exacting
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The acephali, without a king or a bishop, were separated above three hundred years from the patriarchs of Alexandria, who had accepted the communion of Constantinople, without exacting a formal condemnation of the synod of Chalcedon.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Nestorius and Eutyches was filled by a thousand shades of language and opinion; the acephali 73 of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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