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  • ATLANTIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIS

    ATLANTIS, or ATLANTICA, in Antiquity an Island spoken of by Plato and other Writers, under some extraordinary Circumstances; and rendered famous by a Controversy among the Moderns about it. The most distinct Account of this celebrated Place, is given...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANEMOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANEMOMETER

    ANEMOMETER, a Machine wherewith to measure the Strength of the Wind. See WIND. The Anemometer is variously contrived. In the Philosophical Transactions, we have one described, wherein the Wind being supposed to blow directly against a flat Side, of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARACK

    ARACK, or Arrack, a spirituous liquor, imported from the East Indies; chiefly used by way of dram, and in Punch. See DRINK, PUNCH, etc. The nature and composition of this celebrated liquor has been much controverted. The name 'rack', Mr. Lockyer assures...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AULIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AULIC

    AULIC, AULICA, an Act which a young Divine maintains in some foreign Universities, upon the Admission of a new Doctor of Divinity. See ACT. It is so called from the Latin, Aula, a Hall; it being in the Hall of the University that this Act is usually...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    ALGEBRA, a Method of resolving Problems by means of Equations. See PROBLEM, and EQUATION. Some Authors define Algebra the Art of solving all Problems capable of being solved: But this is rather the Idea of Analysis, or the Analytic Art. See ANALYSIS.The...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    ATMOSPHERE, Ἀτμόσφαιρα an Appendage of our Earth; consisting of a thin, fluid, elastic Substance, called Air, surrounding the Terraqueous Globe, to a considerable Height. See EARTH. By atmosphere is usually understood the whole Mass or Assemblage of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • APOCALYPSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCALYPSE

    APOCALYPSE, Apocalypsis, q.d. Revelation; the Name of the last Book in the Canon of Scripture. See CANON and BIBLE. The Apocalypse contains Discoveries, or Revelations relating to many important Mysteries of Christian Faith; made to the Apostle St....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    ANABAPTISTS, a Religious Sect, whose distinguishing Tenet is, That Children are not to be baptized, till they arrive at Years of Discretion; as holding it requisite, that they give a Reason of their Faith, before they can receive a regular Baptism. See...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ABRACADABRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABRACADABRA

    ABRACADABRA, an Inscription, antiently used as a Charm or Spell, for the curing of several Diseases, and driving out Devils. See CHARM, PHYLACTERY, &C. The Author of this piece of Superstition, who is said to have lived under the Emperor Adrian, form'd...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Theology

  • ANTHEMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHEM

    ANTHEM, Antiphona, a Church-Song, performed in Cathedral, and other Service, by the Choristers, divided for that purpose into two Choruses, who sing alternately. See SONG, CHOIR, etc. The Word was originally used both for Psalms, and Hymns, when thus...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • AUSPICYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUSPICY

    AUSPICY, auspicium, a kind of augury amongst the ancients, which consisted in considering the flight and feeding of birds, in order to know whether any undertaking they were about, would prove happy or unfortunate. See AUSPICES and AUGURY. Pliny...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ADEPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ADEPS

    ADEPS, in Anatomy, is a type of Fat, found in the Cavities of the Abdomen. See FAT.Adeps differs from the common fat, called Pinguedo, in that it is thicker, harder, and of a more earthy substance.See PINGUEDO.Adeps is much the same as what we call...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Anatomy

  • ALECTORIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ALECTORIA

    ALECTORIA, in Natural History, a Stone sometimes found in the Stomach, Liver, or rather Gall-Bladder of old Cocks. See STONE. It is ordinarily of the Figure of a Lupine, and seldom exceeds the Bigness of a Bean. It has abundance of Virtues attributed to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ANTHROPOCOMORPHITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOCOMORPHITE

    ANTHROPOCOMORPHITE, one who attributes to God, the Figure of a Man. See GOD, etc. Anthropomorphites were a Sect of ancient Heretics, who, out of a too great Simplicity, taking everything spoken of God in the Scriptures in a literal Sense, imagined He...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARS NOTORIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARS%20NOTORIA

    ARS NOTORIA,is a manner of acquiring Sciences by Infusion, without any other Application than a little Fasting, and making a few Ceremonies. See FASTING, &c. They who make Profession of this Art, affirm that it was by means hereof that Solomon, in one...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARCHIMANDRITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHIMANDRITE

    ARCHIMANDRITE, the superior of a monastery; amounting to what we now call abbot. See ABBOT, SUPERIOR, etc. Covarrubias observes, that the word literally denotes the chief or leader of a flock; in which sense it may be applied to any ecclesiastical...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARSACIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARSACIDES

    ARSACIDES, Arsacidae, the descendants of Arsaces, King of Parthia. This Arsaces, according to the Persian Chronicles, was of the lineage of Cyrus; though others affirm that he was descended from Darius.—Be this as it will, Arsaces having freed the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ANGELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGEL

    ANGEL, a spiritual, intelligent Substance; the first in Rank and Dignity among created Beings. See SPIRIT. The Word Angel, is not properly a Denomination of Nature, but of Office; denoting as much as Nuntius, Messenger, a Person employed to carry one’s...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • CHESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game/CHESS

    CHESS, a fashionable Game, perform'd with little round Pieces of Wood, on a Board divided into 64 Squares; where Art and Address are so indispensibly requisite, that Chance seems to have no place; and a Person never loses but by his own Fault. On each...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Game

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    ACTION, Actio, in Physics, is the production of an effect or the manner of an active cause. See ACTION and ACTIVE. The idea of action is so familiar to us that a definition may as easily obscure as explain it. Some Schoolmen, however, attempt to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics
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