"acephalist" meaning in All languages combined

See acephalist on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: acephalists [plural]
Etymology: From acephal + -ist. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|acephal|ist}} acephal + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} acephalist (plural acephalists)
  1. (obsolete) One who acknowledges no head or superior Tags: obsolete

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "acephal",
        "3": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "acephal + -ist",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From acephal + -ist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "acephalists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "acephalist (plural acephalists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ist",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              35,
              46
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes:",
          "text": "we must not therefore suffer these Acephalists, these circulators and beggars to perswade us[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who acknowledges no head or superior"
      ],
      "id": "en-acephalist-en-noun-cuICkVG2",
      "links": [
        [
          "acknowledge",
          "acknowledge"
        ],
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ],
        [
          "superior",
          "superior"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) One who acknowledges no head or superior"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "acephalist"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "acephal",
        "3": "ist"
      },
      "expansion": "acephal + -ist",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From acephal + -ist.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "acephalists",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "acephalist (plural acephalists)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ist",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              35,
              46
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes:",
          "text": "we must not therefore suffer these Acephalists, these circulators and beggars to perswade us[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who acknowledges no head or superior"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "acknowledge",
          "acknowledge"
        ],
        [
          "head",
          "head"
        ],
        [
          "superior",
          "superior"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) One who acknowledges no head or superior"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "acephalist"
}

Download raw JSONL data for acephalist meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (85b9f46 and 1b6da77). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.