a. rare. [f. Gr. κεφαλή + -IST + -IC.] Pertaining to the head. Improper synonym of CEPHALIC.
1860. Diary Samaritan, 174. The tendency of the disease in the former was cephalistic.
1864. I. Taylor, in Gd. Words, 102/2 (in Ogilvie). A cranium—the cephalistic head-quarters of sensation.
