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Acephalous

adjective
1.
Lacking a head or a clearly defined head.





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... past and of its future. Geology and astronomy are the sciences which reach out into the illimitable alike in the present and past. Biology will do the same for the world of life when biology is completed by a knowledge of the centre of all life, the brain. But in its present acephalous condition it is but a fragment of science—a headless corpse, unfit to rank among complete sciences. Theology claims the highest rank of all, but based as it has been on the conceptions current in the dark ages, it has become, in the light of modern science, a crumbling ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 - Volume 1, Number 3 • Various


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