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polycephalic, a. rare.|ˌpɒlɪsɪˈfælɪk|
[f. Gr. πολυκέϕαλος many-headed + -ic.]
Having many heads; many-headed. So polycephalist |-ˈsɛfəlɪst|, one who has or acknowledges many heads or rulers; polyˈcephalous a., many-headed.
1850Mure Lit. Greece III. 36 One of those [sc. nomes] to Apollo was called, from its compass and variety of parts, the *Polycephalic, or many-headed, Nome.
1659Gauden Tears Ch. iv. xix. 541 Both which methods must have left the..Churches of Christ either Acephalists, confused without any head, or *Polycephalists, burdened with many heads.
1824McCulloch Highl. Scotl. IV. 138 The *polycephalous monster. 1845–50A. H. Lincoln Lect. Bot. xv. 90 They [capsules] are monocephalous, as in the lily, or polycephalous, as in Nigella. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 484 The form of a multitudinous, polycephalous beast, having a ring of heads of all manner of beasts. |