acephalous

• Amoral doesn't mean "Having one less moral" in the same way acephalous means having no head or ruler and anarchy means having no system of government. —  PegasusNews.com stories
• He found it more 'acephalous' than ever; 'less order; less unity of purpose.' —  The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
• Percy's readers did not want torsos and scraps; to present them with acephalous or bobtailed ballads--with cetera desunt and constellations of asterisks--like the manuscript in Prior's poem, the conclusion of which was eaten by the rats--would have been mere pedantry. —  A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
• And Mr. Buckle begins with making Personality acephalous, and ends-with appending its corpse to Society, to be galvanized into seemings of life. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863
• The pearl-bearing oyster is of a more delicate nature than most of the other acephalous mollusca. —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1

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