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  • ARÆOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARÆOMETER

    of glass; consisting of a round hollow ball, which terminates in a long slender neck, hermetically sealed at the top. There being first, as much running mercury put into it, as will serve to balance or keep it swimming in an erect position. The stem is...

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

  • ASPHALTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALTOS

    Gomorrah.—It is cast up from time to time, in the Nature of a liquid Pitch, from the Earth which lies under this Sea; and being thrown upon the Water, swims like other fat Bodies, and condenses by little and little, through the Heat of the Sun, and the...

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

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

    admires even where he does not understand. On the other hand, St. Justin, Irenaeus, and St. Augustine make no doubt of its being Canonical. The third Council of Carthage, held in 397, placed it in the Canon of the New Testament; and the Churches both of...

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

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

    the Power or Virtue of 365 dependent Intelligences:which Number is express'd by the Greek Letters of the Word ; it being the Custom of the Greeks to express their Numbers by the Letters of their Alphabet : The Value of thofe in the present Word are...

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

  • ABASEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ABASED

    the Tip, or Angle looks downward toward the Point of the Shield ; or when the Wings are shut: The natural way of bearing 'em being spread, with the Tip pointing to the Chies, or the Angles. See VOL. A Chevron, a Pale, Bend, &c. are also said to be...

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

  • ACACIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ACACIA

    Taste. — It is, or should be, an Ingredient in the Theriaca Andromachi. The German Acacia is a Counterfeit of the former; being made of the Juice of unripe Sloes, boiled to the Consistence of a solid Extract - and put up in Bladders, like the former. —...

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

  • AMNIOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMNIOS

    See SECUNDINE, and CHORION. It contains a limpid Liquor, like a thin Jelly-broth; with which the Stomach of the Fetus being always found full, it is supposed to be the Matter of its Nourishment. See NUTRITION. On its outside lies the Allantois, or...

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

  • APICEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/phytology/APICES

    down into the Flower, fecundates and ripens the Seed. See further under the Article GENERATION OF PLANTS. The Word is Latin; being the Nominative plural of Apex, the Top or Summit of anything. APICES

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

  • AJUTAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/hydrology/AJUTAGE

    in Hydraulics, part of the Apparatus of an artificial Fountain, or Jet d’Eau; being a kind of Tube, fitted to the Mouth or Aperture of the Vessel; through which the Water is to be played, and by it determined into this or that Figure.'Tis chiefly the...

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

  • APERTIONShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/APERTIONS

    and Inlets for Light, Smoke, etc. See BUILDING. See also DOOR, WINDOW, etc. The apertions should be as few as may be; it being a Rule that all Openings are Weakenings. APERTIONS

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

  • APPARITORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPARITOR

    to furnish them with Apparitors. There were also a kind of Apparitors of Cohorts, called Cohortales, or Conditionales, as being attached to a Cohort, and doomed to that Condition—The Apparitors of the Praetors, Praetoriani, were those who attended the...

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

  • ATTRIBUTEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ATTRIBUTES

    proper Essence; as Justice, Goodness, Wisdom, etc. See GOD. The Heathen Mythologists divided the Deity into as many distinct Beings as he has Attributes: Thus the Power of God was Mars, the Wrath and Vengeance of God, Juno, etc. See MYTHOLOGY....

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

  • ERRATAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php?view=article&id=3:ERRATA&catid=1209640500

    IN the Article Angle, Page 97. Column 1. Line ult. for Centre L, read Centre I. Article Mean Anomaly, line 10. insert Fig. 64. Article Asymptote of a Logarithmic Curve, insert Fig. 33. Centre of Oscilation, line 11. for DEHB, read DFHB. Centripetal...

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

  • 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

  • ANTIPHRASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPHRASIS

    ANTIPHRASIS, a sort of figurative Speech which has a contrary meaning to what it carries in appearance. Or, a kind of Irony, wherein we say one thing and mean the contrary. See FIGURE and IRONY. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀντί and φράσις, of...

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

  • ARRESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARREST

    ARREST, in common Law,an Execution of the Command of some Court, or Officer of Justice—Hence, when a Person is legally stopped, apprehended, and restrained of his Liberty, for Debt, etc. he is said to be arrested, or put under an Arrest; which is the...

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

  • ARRAIGNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ARRAIGN

    ARRAIGN, or Arrain, in law, signifies to set a thing in order, or in its place. See ARRANGEMENT. Thus, he is said to arraign a writ of novel disseisin, who prepares and fits it for trial before the justices of the circuit. In this sense Littleton says,...

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

  • AMENDMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AMENDMENT

    AMENDMENT, in Law, the Correction of an Error committed in a Process, and espied before Judgment. See ERROR. If the Error be committed in giving Judgment, viz. a wrong Judgment be given, there, they cannot amend it; but the Party aggrieved must bring...

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

  • ACCESSIBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSIBLE

    ACCESSIBLE, something that may be approached; or that access may be had to. See ACCESS and APPROACH. Such a place, a fortress, is accessible from the seaward, i.e., the passage to it is practicable. See FORTIFICATION and FORTIFIED PLACE. Accessible...

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

  • ATTORNMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTORNMENT

    ATTORNMENT, in Law, a transferring of Duty and Service to another Lord; or an Acknowledgment which a Tenant makes of Homage and Service to a new Lord. See LORD and TENANT. Thus, when one is Tenant for Life, and he in Reversion grants his Right to...

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