| 释义 |
Definition of acephalous in English: acephalousadjective eɪˈkɛf(ə)ləseɪˈsɛf(ə)ləseɪˈsɛfələs 1Not having a head. 失去头部的 无头骨架。 Example sentencesExamples - Thus the design may sometimes appear acephalous and at other times polycephalous (Hydra-headed).
- 1.1 Having no leader or chief.
无首领的 无头骨架。 Example sentencesExamples - During the late nineteenth century in societies ranging from the acephalous to interlacustrine kingdoms, senior men bolstered their authority through a monopoly of access to locally brewed beer.
- The resistance is largely decentralised, localised and acephalous.
- Whereas most large centralized states surrendered after an initial confrontation and defeat, certain small, and also acephalous, polities kept up a long drawn-out military struggle against alien rule.
- Reflecting the primacy of kinship bonds, tribes are resolutely egalitarian, segmental, and acephalous - to use terms favored by anthropologists.
- The project could be described as an acephalous horde, in which there may be some person with more influence than others, but where everything is agreed in direct communication.
- From such a perspective, the acephalous Igbo and their neighbors were on the receiving end of artistic innovation.
- The innuendo was that female rule, if insufficiently ‘godly’, was not sacral monarchy, but was tantamount to minority or acephalous rule.
- Sierra Leone was the object of similar plunder, leaving an acephalous state in rampant disorder only to be stabilised by British Tommies.
2Prosody
(typically of a hexameter beginning with a short syllable) lacking a syllable or syllables in the first foot. 〔诗韵〕（尤指以短音节开头的六韵步诗行）首音步少一个（或几个）音节的
OriginMid 18th century: via medieval Latin from Greek akephalos 'headless' (from a- 'without' + kephalē 'head') + -ous. Definition of acephalous in US English: acephalousadjectiveāˈsefələseɪˈsɛfələs 1Not having a head. 失去头部的 无头骨架。 Example sentencesExamples - Thus the design may sometimes appear acephalous and at other times polycephalous (Hydra-headed).
- 1.1 Having no leader or chief.
无首领的 无头骨架。 Example sentencesExamples - Sierra Leone was the object of similar plunder, leaving an acephalous state in rampant disorder only to be stabilised by British Tommies.
- From such a perspective, the acephalous Igbo and their neighbors were on the receiving end of artistic innovation.
- Whereas most large centralized states surrendered after an initial confrontation and defeat, certain small, and also acephalous, polities kept up a long drawn-out military struggle against alien rule.
- The innuendo was that female rule, if insufficiently ‘godly’, was not sacral monarchy, but was tantamount to minority or acephalous rule.
- During the late nineteenth century in societies ranging from the acephalous to interlacustrine kingdoms, senior men bolstered their authority through a monopoly of access to locally brewed beer.
- The project could be described as an acephalous horde, in which there may be some person with more influence than others, but where everything is agreed in direct communication.
- The resistance is largely decentralised, localised and acephalous.
- Reflecting the primacy of kinship bonds, tribes are resolutely egalitarian, segmental, and acephalous - to use terms favored by anthropologists.
2Prosody
Lacking a syllable or syllables in the first foot.
OriginMid 18th century: via medieval Latin from Greek akephalos ‘headless’ (from a- ‘without’ + kephalē ‘head’) + -ous. |