(n. pl.) A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.
(n. pl.) A Christian sect without a leader.
(n. pl.) Bishops and certain clergymen not under regular diocesan control.
(n. pl.) A class of levelers in the time of K. Henry I.
Example Sentences:
(1) A hypothesis about the frequency of the association between acephaly and acardy is proposed.
(2) Three cases of monozygous male twins having exencephaly, anencephaly, and acephaly, with their cotwins being normal, are reported.
(3) Similarly the adrenal gland hypoplasia does not depend upon the absence of the pituitary gland due to the concurrent condition of acephaly.
Clergymen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Clergyman
Example Sentences:
(1) The consultation program also accepts referrals of hospitalized medical patients with apparent emotional problems and referrals of patients from such sources outside the hospital as pediatricians, clergymen, and other community agencies.
(2) The responses indicated:* Catholic and Protestant clergymen do not always follow the official positions of their churches in these matters, although the majority of them do.
(3) Under a bright midday sun, a procession of clergymen – black and Christian, white and Jewish, brown and Muslim – took turns at searching for the terms that might help to make sense of the city’s loss.
(4) Using the antibody to HCV and HBc (anti-HCV, anti-HBc), we studied the prevalence of Hepatitis C and B virus in three groups: intravenous drug abusers, subjects lodging in huts and elderly clergymen.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Libby Lane (front) is applauded by other clergymen in front of York Minster.
(6) A multidisciplinary team involved in the care of patients with advanced cancer including physicians, nurses, social workers, physical therapists, nutritionists, clergymen, enterostomal therapists, biostatisticians and administrative personnel were studied over a period of eighteen months.
(7) Every sort and condition of humanity was represented – well-dressed young men and women, a few women in slacks, many clergymen, an occasional white beatnik in beard and jeans, a Negro in a wheelchair holding a placard reading "Help my people."
(8) In that year, it put a large arsenal of weapons and explosives beyond use in front of independent observers, including two Irish clergymen.
(9) Under conditions of hospital or institutional treatment it is important to improve systematically the emotional support of patients dying without their family (trained health workers, psychologists and clergymen) or facilitate legislatively and de facto the integration of the closest relatives in the process of dying.
(10) The medically unfit, clergymen, teachers and workers employed in key industries were exempt.
(11) It was provided by the parallel talks going on in Feakle in Co Clare with a group of clergymen in December 1974, and for nearly 20 years both sides kept secret what had actually taken place in Derry.
(12) Music was performed, politicians gave speeches, clergymen preached sermons and Henry James Sr, father of the novelist, gave a celebrated series of lectures on “The Universality of Art” in 1851.
(13) In March last year, Anglican clergymen, including the archbishops of Canterbury and York, accused Duncan Smith of ignoring the concerns of ordinary people when they signed a letter claiming that capping benefit rises would have a "deeply disproportionate" effect on children.
(14) Many of the victims died at the hands of priests, clergymen and nuns, according to some accounts by survivors, and the Rwandan government said many died in the churches where they sought refuge.
(15) "All the clergymen in this election are behind Dai," insists Rev Ebenezer.
(16) They particularly liked to torment the rich, the famous, clergymen, the military and politicians.
(17) The hypotheses test the ideas that ministers do not enjoy pastoral contacts with the elderly and that these contacts reflect the clergymen's ageist preferences and concern with instrumental over expressive values.
(18) * The approval responses of Protestant and Catholic clergymen were not greatly influenced by whether the illness variables involved high Mendelian risk, high psychological cost, high social cost, or poor prognosis.
(19) The archbishop is one of only two Europeans on a list of clergymen to be made cardinals next week, aside from those already holding senior offices at the Holy See, with the rest hailing from the developing world.
(20) Both of the abducted clergymen survived five months of imprisonment.