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  • ALMAGESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMAGEST

    the Name of a celebrated Book, composed by Ptolemy; being a Collection of many of the Observations and Problems of the Ancients, relating both to Geometry and Astronomy. In the Original Greek it was called syvTagsis yezisn, q. de Greatest Construction,...

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

  • AGARIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/pharmacy/AGARIC

    it was first brought. Several authors, and among the rest, Galen, take it for a root; but the common opinion is for its being of the mushroom kind. It is brought from the Levant. It is white, light, tender, brittle, of a bitter taste, pungent, and a...

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

  • AQUAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/hydrology/AQUA

    along the Sea-Coasts; and is said to vie with the Amethyst in hardness. See AMETHYST. Some of the Critics contend for its being the sixth Stone in the Rationale of the Jewish High Priest; called, in the Hebrew, Tarshish; and rendered in Latin, by...

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

  • ALLEGORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLEGORY

    is intended by it, makes what we properly call an Allegory. This Shift they had recourse to, in order to prevent People from being shocked with those Absurdities which the Poets had introduced into their Religion; and to convince the World, that the...

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

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    witness of the truth of what I say, etc."This act was afterwards continued; and at last made perpetual. But this form not being such as was desired, and having, in reality, all the essentials of an oath; they applied to the parliament for an alteration,...

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

  • Vice-ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/Vice-ADMIRAL

    the proceedings in this court were anciently likewise by information and accusation, according to the Civil Law; but that being found inconvenient, in regard no person could be convicted without either their own confession, or an eyewitness of the fact,...

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

  • AGREEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGREEMENT

    executed at the Beginning; mention’d in the Stat. of 25 Edw. III. which says, "That the Goods bought by Forestallers, being thereof attainted, shall be forfeited to the King; if the Buyer thereof has made Gree with the Seller." Where the Word Gree,...

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

  • ATTENDANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTENDANT

    of the land, and shall be attendant to the heir, of the third part of the penny, not of the third part of the two pence; she being to be endowed of the best possession of her husband.—Where the wife is endowed by the guardian, she shall be attendant to...

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

  • ABLACTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening/ABLACTATION

    But this Method is not sound equally successful. The Word originally signifies the weaning a Child from the Breast ; being form'd of ab, from, and lac, Milk. ABLACTATION

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

  • ANGELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/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 Orders,...

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

  • ANATHEMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANATHEMA

    delivers him over to the Devil. The latter kind of Anathema usually makes a Part of the Ceremony of Abjuration; the Convert being obliged to anathematize the Heresy he abjures. See ABJURATION. Most Greek Writers distinguish Anathema, written with a long...

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

  • AFFECTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AFFECTION

    Affectio, in Physics, a Quality or Property of some natural Being. See QUALITY, and PROPERTY. The Schoolmen define Affection an Attribute proper to any Being, arising from the Essence thereof. See ATTRIBUTE, PROPER, etc. Affections are distinguished...

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

  • ARGENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ARGENT

    either this or Or, the heralds say there can be no good armory. See OR. Argent is expressed in engraving by the parts being left plain, without any strokes from the graver. The word is French, derived from the Latin argentum, silver; this color being...

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

  • ACTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTIVE

    ACTIVE, Activus, something that communicates Motion, or Action to another. See ACTION. In this sense, the word stands opposed to Passive. See PASSIVE. Thus, we say, an Active Cause, Active Principles, &c.See CAUSE. The Quantity of Motion in the World,...

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

  • ABORTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABORTION

    ABORTION, in Medicine, an immature Exclusion of the Fœtus ; or the Delivery of a Woman with Child, before the legitimate Term ; popularly call'd Miscarriage. See DELIVERY, &c. This may happen at any time of Pregnancy; but is before the second Month...

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

  • APPORTIONMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/APPORTIONMENT

    APPORTIONMENT, in Law, a dividing of a Rent into two Parts or Portions, according as the Land whence it issues, is divided among two, or more. See RENT, DIVISION, PARTITION, etc. Thus if a Man, having a Rent-Service issuing out of Land, purchase a part...

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

  • AIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AID

    first imposed by the Lord or King, at what rate he pleased; but by a Stat.3d Edw. I, a restraint was laid on common persons being Lords, and they were tied down to a fixed proportion.By a subsequent statute, the same rate was extended even to the King....

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

  • ANCHORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCHOR

    which is that which runs down into the Ground; at the End of which is, 4°, The Fluke, or Fluke, by some called the Palm; being that broad and pointed Part with its Barbs like an Arrow-head, which fastens into the Ground; 5°, The Stock, a piece of Wood...

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

  • ACETOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACETOUS

    fumes of the vinegar cannot be smelt; the saturation and evaporation to be again repeated, till the metal be satiated; which being then distilled, the spirit comes over. Its qualities and uses are much the same with those of the former, only more...

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

  • APOSTLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTLE

    the Acts of the Apostles, and the Revelations. Hence it is also called, Acts of the Apostles, Πράξεις τῶν Ἀποστόλων, that being the first Book in it. See ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. Apostle is also used among the Jews, for a kind of Officer anciently sent...

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