acephalist

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- Botany, (of plants) lying against something. acephalist

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  1. One who acknowledges no head or superior; specifically, in ecclesiastical history, one of the Acephali. These acephalists, who will endure no head but that upon their own shoulders. Bp. Gauden, Tears of the Church (1659), p. 464.

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