macrocephalic

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Besides babies up till the age of six months only resemble macrocephalic idiots ....

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  1. Of or pertaining to a large head; associated with excessive size of the head: as, macrocephalic idiocy.
  2. In ancient prosody, having one syllable too many at the beginning: an epithet of dactylic hexameters the first foot of which apparently has a syllable in excess. Also procephalic. See dolichuric.

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  • Crackling, TV-style scan lines obscure details of Olivier's face, which we first see in animated form as a macrocephalic gargoyle obviously inspired by Frank Morgan's oversized false-face in The Wizard of Oz . —  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2005
  • Besides babies up till the age of six months only resemble macrocephalic idiots .... —  Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement
 

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