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  • ADEQUATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEQUATE

    IDEA. M. Leibniz defines an Adequate Notion to be that of whose several characters we have distinct ideas. Thus, a Circle being defined as a figure bounded by a curve line that returns into itself, and whose points are all equally distant from a certain...

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

  • AFFINITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFINITY

    the IVth Council of the Lateran, held in 1213, it was decreed, That none but the first Kind was any real Affinity; the rest being mere Refinements, which ought to be set aside. Tit. de Confung. & Affin. The Degrees are reckoned after the same manner in...

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

  • ALLEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening/ALLEY

    the Squares of a Parterre. The Word Alley is derived from the French Verb Aller, to go; the ordinary use of an Alley being for a Walk, Passage, or Thoroughfare from one Place to another. ALLEY

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

  • APPUIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPUI

    Horseman. See HEAD, BRIDLE, etc. A just Appui of the Hand, is the nice bearing up or stay of the Bridle; so that the Horse being awed by the Sensibility and Tenderness of his Mouth, dares not rest too much upon the Bit-Mouth, nor check or beat upon the...

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

  • ARIEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARIES

    also denotes a Battering Ram; being a military Engine much in use among the ancient Romans, to batter and beat down the Walls of Places besieged. See MACHINE. Of this there were two kinds; the one rude and simple, the other artificial and compound. The...

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

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

    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 held. See UNIVERSITY, DEGREE, DOCTOR, etc. The Person who presides at...

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

  • AMAZONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AMAZON

    gone to that. Some Authors relate, that instead of killing, they twisted the Legs of their Male Children; to prevent their being able to contend with them for the Mastery. M. Petit, a French Physician, published a Large Dissertation in 1685, to prove...

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

  • AMULEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMULET

    Physician to the States of Moravia, who having prepared some Troches of Toads after Helmont’s manner, not only found that being worn as Amulets they preserved him and his Domesticks and Friends from the Plague; but, being put on the Plague-Sores of...

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

  • APSIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APSIDES

    from the Aphelion A to the Perihelion P. See ORBIT and PLANET. The Eccentricity is reckoned in the Line of the Apsides: being the Distance between the Center of the Orbit of the Planet C, and the Center of the Sun or Earth S, according as the Copernican...

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

  • ADVOWEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVOWEE

    still subsist, and are sometimes called by their primitive Name, Advowees, though more usually Patrons, were hereditary; as being the Founders and Endowers of Churches, etc. or their Heirs. See PATRON. In this sense, Women were sometimes Advocatesses,...

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

  • ACANTHUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ACANTHUS

    ACANTHUS, in Architecture, an Ornament in the Corinthian and Composite Orders; being the Representation of the Leaves of an Acanaceous Plant, in the Capitals thereof.See CAPITAL, and LEAVES. It takes its Name from δKανθος, the Name given the Plant...

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

  • APOSTOLIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTOLIC

    Apostolic was attributed to all such Churches as were founded by the Apostles; and even to the Bishops of those Churches, as being the reputed Successors of the Apostles. These were confined to four; viz. Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem. In...

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

  • ASTROLABEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLABE

    some Circle thereof. See PROJECTION and STEREOGRAPHIC. The usual Planes of Projection are that of the Equinoctial, the Eye being supposed in the Pole of the World; and that of the Plane of the Meridian, the Eye being supposed in the Point of...

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

  • ALABASTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ALABASTER

    it is cast into a Mould, where it readily coagulates into a firm Body. See PLASTER. Alabaster, Mr. Boyle observes, being finely powdered, and thus set in a Basin over the Fire; will, when hot, assume the Appearance of a Fluid, by rolling in Waves,...

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

  • ACOLYTHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ACOLYTHES

    Times, aspired to the Ministry; and for that Purpose, continually attended the Bishops: Which Assiduity occasioned their being called Acolythes. In the Romish Church, there are a sort of Acolythi yet in being; but their Functions are different from...

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

  • ACQUITTALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACQUITTAL

    in Law, and in Fact.When two are appealed or indicted of Felony, one as Principal the other as Accessory; the Principal being discharged, the Accessory is by Consequence also freed: In which Case, as the Accessory is acquitted by Law, so is the...

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

  • ADORATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADORATION

    the act of rendering divine worship or honors, to a being. See GOD and WORSHIP. The adoration of idols is called Idolatry. See IDOLATRY. The Romanists profess a subordinate adoration to saints, images, relics, the cross, &c. See SAINT, IMAGE, RELIC,...

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

  • AUNCEL-WEIGHThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUNCEL-WEIGHT

    or Fore-finger, and so discovers the Equality or Difference between the Weight and the Thing weighed. See BALANCE. There being great Deceits practiced in these Weights, they were prohibited by several Statutes; and the even Balance alone commanded. See...

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

  • AUTUMNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTUMN

    autumnus, the third season of the year; being that wherein the harvest, and the fruits of the summer are gathered. See SEASON, YEAR, etc. Autumn begins on the day when the sun’s meridian distance from the zenith, being on the decrease, is a mean between...

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

  • ARSENALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARSENAL

    See NAVY, YARD, etc. The word, according to some, is derived from Arx or Arcus; or rather from Ars, an engine; this being the place where the engines of war are preserved.—Some derive it from Arcus Senatus, as being the defence of the Senate; others...

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