Word Meanings - ACEPHALI - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads. A Christian sect without a leader. Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control. 3. A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I.

Related words: (words related to ACEPHALI)

• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• UNDERSAY
  To say by way of derogation or contradiction. Spenser.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• CHRISTIAN
  1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first
• UNDERTAPSTER
  Assistant to a tapster.
• UNDERDELVE
  To delve under.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• DUNDERHEAD
  A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.
• TEN-POUNDER
  A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.