Definition of Acephalous

Accuse

ACEPHALOUS adjective

	In the surprising condition of the Crusader who absently pulled at his forelock some hours after a Saracen scimitar had, unconsciously to him, passed through his neck, as related by de Joinville.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Achievement

Regular definition:

ACEPHALOUS:
??sef?l?s adj. 1 headless. 2 having no chief. 3 Zool. having no part of the body specially organized as a head. 4 Bot. with a head aborted or cut off. 5 Prosody lacking a syllable or syllables in the first foot. [med.L acephalus f. Gk akephalos headless (as A-(1), kephale head)]

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