FACTOID # 48: Many Americans live alone - the United States leads the world in one person households.
 
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Encyclopedia > Acephality

Headless-ness. See also acephalic, for pathological/biological connotations, or acephalocyst for zoological ones.


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Acephalous line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (119 words)
An acephalous or headless line is a line in a poem which does not conform to its accepted metre, due to the first syllable's omission.
Acephalous lines are usually deliberate variations in scansion, but this is not always obvious.
Robert Wallace argues in his Meter in English that the term acephalous line seems "pejorative", as if criticising the poet's violation of scansion, but this view is not widely held among critics [[1].
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The Meta’ are an acephalous group to the West of the kingdoms of the Bamenda Plateau.
Since the notables spoke for and acted on behalf of the chief he was rendered powerless to expand by the very powers vested in him.
Dillon argues for a model of acephalous societies which combines Horton’s historicism with the results from the analysis of conflict resolution.
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