Usually means: Headless; lacking centralized leadership, structure.
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  1. acephali: Wordnik
  2. acephali: Wiktionary
  3. Acephali, acephali: Dictionary.com
  4. Acephali: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Acephali: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. acephali: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Acephali: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. acephali: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Acephali: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Acephali: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. acephali: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (acephali)

noun:  A people reported by Herodotus and Josephus to have no heads or removable heads.
noun:  (ecclesiastical history) The Eutychians, a Christian sect in the year 482 without a leader. See http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01100c.htm.
noun:  (ecclesiastical history) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.
noun:  A class of levelers in the time of King Henry I.

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