bicephalous

(bī-sĕf′ə-ləs)

adj. Zoology

Having two heads.

bicephalic

adjective Referring to 2 heads.

References in periodicals archive

In the case of the Fifth Republic, the bicephalous executive makes the partisan views of the two executive heads extremely important.

Semi-presidentialism a la frangaise: the recent constitutional evolution of the "two-headed" executive

and the Achemenid Empire's bicephalous secular-spiritual

Reflections on the ambiguous universality of human rights: Cyrus the Great's proclamation as a challenge to the Athenian democracy's perceived monopoly on human rights

Bustos Domecq is a multifaceted character in the three works that carry his name: in Seis problemas para don lsidro Parodi (1942) he serves as an extradiegetic pseudonym for the bicephalous author called by Hernandez Martin "Biorges", the collaborative voice of Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares; in Cronicas de Bustos Domecq (1967) he becomes an intradiegetic writer of literary essays; and in Nuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq (1977) his character serves primarily as an intradiegetic narratee, similar in structure but different in implicit function to his role in the 1942 work.

Bustos Domecq and the praise of folly

6): 'The human race has a bicephalous evolutionary destiny governed by both the slow pace of genetic evolution (or deviation) and the rapid pace of cultural evolution'.

What was a Roman emperor? Emperor, therefore a God

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