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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 135 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACEPHALI (from &-, privative, and Ke4a)X1 , See also:head), a See also:term applied to several sects as having no head or See also:leader; and in particular to a strict monophysite See also:sect that separated itself, in the end of the 5th See also:century, from the See also:rule of the See also:patriarch of See also:Alexandria (See also:Peter Mongus), and remained " without See also:king or See also:bishop " till they were reconciled by See also:Mark I. (799-819)1 The term is also used to denote clerici vagrantes, i.e. See also:clergy without See also:title or See also:benefice, picking up a living anyhow (cf. See also:Hinschius i. p. 64). Certain persons in See also:England during the reign of King See also:Henry I. were called Acephali because they had no lands by virtue of which they could acknowledge a See also:superior See also:lord. The name is also given to certain legendary races described by See also:ancient naturalists and geographers as having no heads, their mouths and eyes being in their breasts, generally identified with See also:Pliny's Blemmyae.

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