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  • AETITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AETITES

    the Indies. : The Use now made of the Stone, is to assist Women in Labour; to which end, they fasten it about the Knee: it being a Tradition, that according as it is applied above or below the Matrix, it has the Faculty of retaining or excluding the...

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

  • ARCHDUKEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHDUKE

    ARCHE, among physicians, the beginning of a disease. See DISEASE. ARCHED LEGS, is an imperfection in a horse; when being in his natural position, he has his legs bent forwards; and his whole leg makes a kind of arch or bow. SeeHorse. It usually arises...

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

  • ABSOLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABSOLUTION

    Absolutio ad Cautelam, is that granted to a Person who has lodg'd an Appeal against a Sentence of Excommunication. It being a Maxim in the Papal Jurisprudence, that the Sentence stands good notwithstanding any Appeal ; this sort of Absolution is...

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

  • AURORA BOREALIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURORA%20BOREALIS

    passes out again with some force into the aether at the same distance from the northern; the obliquity of its direction being proportioned to its distance from the pole. This subtle matter, by becoming some way or other more dense, or having its...

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

  • ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE

    Angle flanked, by some called the Angle of the Bastion, is the Angle BCS, made by the two Faces of the Bastion, BC, CS; being the outermost part of the Bastion, and that most exposed to the Enemy’s Batteries, and therefore by some called the Point of...

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

  • AGAThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AGAT

    agats, etc. The ancients mention a red agat, spotted with points of gold, found in Candia; and called sacred, as being a preservative against the poison of vipers, scorpions, and spiders. —Pliny has a whole chapter of the virtues of agates.Agate has...

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

  • ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ABACUS

    Trencher. See TUSCAN, DORIC, and IONIC. In the richer Orders it has lost its native Form ; its four Sides, or Faces, being arch'd, or cut inwards ; with some Ornament, as a Rose, or other Flower, or Fishes Tail in the middle of each Arch. See...

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

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

    that border on the sea. Some borrow it from the Greeks; the Captain of the Seas, under the Emperors of Constantinople, being called Australins or Alutiralis, from ανυδρος, saline, or ανυ, saltwater, and αρχω, princeps; in regard his jurisdiction lay on...

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

  • AMMIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/AMMI

    of essential Oil, and volatile Salt; and to be attenuating, aperitive, hysteric, carminative, cephalic, and alexipharmic being, is one of the four lesser hot Seeds.—It expels Wind, provokes the Menses, &c. According to Lemery, the Plant takes its Name...

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

  • ACTUALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTUAL

    Heat, actively taken, is the power or faculty of producing Heat; passively taken, it should be the power or faculty of being heated, or of receiving actual Heat. See HEAT, COLD, etc. In Theology, we say, actual Grace, in opposition to Habitual Grace....

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

  • ÆRARIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆRARIUM

    the public Treasury of a State or People. See TREASURY. The Temple of Saturn at Rome, being the great Treasury of the city, was first called Aerarium, from Aes, Brass; that being the only Money in use before the Year of Rome 485. Pliny, L. II. c, 33....

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

  • AERARIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AERARIUM

    the public Treasury of a State or People. See Treasury. The Temple of Saturn at Rome, being the great Treasury of the city, was first called Aerarium, from Aes, Brass; that being the only Money in use before the Year of Rome 485. Pliny, L. II. c, 33....

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

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

    was really invented by Anselm of Parma, a celebrated Magician. St. Paul’s Art, is a Branch of the Ars Notoria, so called as being supposed to have been taught by St. Paul, after his being taken up into the third Heaven.

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

  • ALIQUANT Parthttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALIQUANT%20Part

    will not measure or divide any Number exactly, but some Remainder will still be left—Or, an Aliquant Part, is that which being taken any Number of times, is always either greater or lesser than the Whole. See PART, MEASURE, &c. A Table of Aliquant Parts...

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

  • ANALOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALOGY

    ANALOGY, a certain Relation, Proportion, or Agreement, which several Things, in other respects different, bear to each other.—Such is that between the Bull in the Heavens, and the Animal so called on Earth. The Word is Greek, Ἀναλογία (Analogia); which...

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

  • APERTUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APERTURE

    APERTURE, Apertura, the Opening of anything; or a Hole, Cleft, or vacant Place in some otherwise solid, or continuous Subject. See OPENING. The Word comes from the Latin Apertura, of Aperire to open. In Geometry, Aperture is used for the Space left...

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

  • ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC

    ARITHMETIC, Arithmetica, the Art of Numbering;or, that Part of Mathematics which considers the Powers and Properties of Numbers, and teaches how to compute or calculate truly, and with Expedition and Ease. See NUMBER, MATHEMATICS, COMPUTATION, etc. Some...

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

  • ASSENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSENT

    proposition, "Peter either studies, or does not study"; the mind does not give a twofold assent to the two parts thereof, it being enough that Peter does either the one or the other, for the proposition to be true. See PROPOSITION. Assent is...

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

  • ANAGRAMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGRAM

    The Cabalists among the Jews are professed Anagrammatists; the third Part of their Art, which they call Mura, i.e. changing, being nothing but the Art of making Anagrams, or of finding hidden and mystical Meanings in Names: which they do by changing,...

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

  • ARCHAEUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHAEUS

    ideas to it, which for this reason they call Archaeal ideas. See IDEA. The word is derived from ἀρχή, principle; this fire being the principle and source of all the effects in nature. See PRINCIPLE. Helmont is a great asserter of the dogma of an...

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