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  • AURUM POTABILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURUM%20POTABILE

    AURUM POTABILE, potable gold, is a composition made of gold, by reducing it, without any corrosive, into a gum, or substance like honey, of the colour of blood; which gum steeped in spirit of wine, acquires a ruby-colour, and is called tincture of gold....

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

  • ARMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/military-art/ARMY

    the armies consisted almost equally of cavalry and foot: But since the declension of the Carolingian line, the fiefs being become hereditary, the national armies, says le Gendre, are chiefly cavalry. The armies of the Grand Signor consist mostly of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Military art

  • ASPECThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/perspective/ASPECT

    See RAY and ANGLE. Hence it follows, that Conjunction and Opposition are the two Extremes of the Aspects; Conjunction being the Beginning, and Opposition the highest Term. See CONJUNCTION and OPPOSITION. Besides these two extreme Aspects,Conjunction,...

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

  • ABORIGINEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ABORIGINES

    adheres. 2d, S. Jerom says, they were called Aborigines, as having no beginning ; of ab, and origo, original ; i. e. as being originally of that Country, and not a Colony deriv'd from elsewhere : or, as Halicarnassæus explains it, GREEK

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

  • ANTIDILUVIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIDILUVIAN

    Vegetables, Metals, Minerals, etc.; that it had the same Position in respect of the Sun which ours now has, its Axis not being parallel, but inclined, as at present, to the Plane of the Ecliptic; consequently, that there were then the same Succession of...

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

  • ALEXIPHARMIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALEXIPHARMIC

    are also esteemed Preservatives against malignant, and pestilential Fevers: But they are to be used with Caution; some being only proper in Condensations, and others in Colliquations of the Blood. See PRESERVATIVE, PRACTICE, &c. The Word is derived from...

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

  • APOREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APORE

    TRISECTION, etc. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀπορία, which signifies something very difficult and impracticable; being formed from the Privative α, and πόρος, Passage. Hence also the Word Pore, which is understood of those imperceptible Passages...

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

  • ARBOURhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARBOUR

    up by standards, cross-rails, circles and arches of iron. For which purpose they make use of small fillets of oak, which being planed and made straight, are wrought in checkers, and fastened with wire. ARBOUR

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

  • ARCHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHES

    suppose the denomination and functions of Deanof the Arches to have arisen hence, that the Archbishop’s Official or Dean being often employed abroad in foreign embassies, the Dean of the Arches was his substitute in thiscourt. This Judge, on any appeal...

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

  • ARMORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMORY

    There are Armories in the Tower, and all Arsenals. See TOWER and ARSENAL. Armory is also used for a Branch of Heraldry; being the Knowledge of Coat-Armours, as to their Blazonry and various Intendments. See HERALDRY; see also COAT-ARMOUR, BLAZON, etc....

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

  • ASSARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSART

    Deer, and making them plain as arable Land. See FOREST. This is the greatest Trespass that can be committed inthe Forest, being more than a Waste. For whereas Wasteof the Forest is but the felling and cutting down the Coverts,which may grow again;...

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

  • ÆGIPANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ÆGIPAN

    in Antiquity, a Denomination given to Pan, and the Pans. See PANS. The Word is compounded of aix, aigos, Goat; as being represented with the Horns, Legs, Feet, etc. of that Animal. The Ancients also gave the Name Aegipan to a sort of Monsters mentioned...

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

  • AEGIPANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEGIPAN

    in Antiquity, a Denomination given to Pan, and the Pans. See Pans. The Word is compounded of aix, aigos, Goat; as being represented with the Horns, Legs, Feet, etc. of that Animal. The Ancients also gave the Name Aegipan to a sort of Monsters mentioned...

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

  • ACCENSUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENSUS

    that is, of the Consuls, Pretors, Proconsuls, etc., who had their name, Accensi, from acciendo; their principal employment being to call assemblies of the people and summon people to appear in court. The other order of Accensi were a kind of...

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

  • ANALEMMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALEMMA

    or Projection of the Sphere, on the Plane of the Meridian, orthographically made, by straight Lines and Ellipses; the Eye being supposed to be at an infinite Distance; and in the East or West Points of the Horizon. See PLANISPHERE, PROJECTION, and...

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

  • ABSTRUSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ABSTRUSE

    that few People attain to. — The Word is of Latin Original, Abstrufus ; form'd of abs, from, and trudo, I thruit ; q. d. being far off, and out of reach. ABSTRUSE

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

  • AUXILIARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUXILIARY

    do not change their terminations or endings, as those of the Latin and Greek, to denote the different tenses or times of being, doing, or suffering; nor the different moods or manners of their signifying: So that to supply this defect, recourse is had...

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

  • ANNEALINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNEALING

    only discovered since the Art of Annealing upon Glass came to be practiced. For prepared Silver, or even the crude Metal, being burnt on a Glass Plate, will tinge it of a fine yellow, or golden Color. And there are several mineral Earths, and other...

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

  • ANECDOTEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANECDOTES

    speaking with too much Freedom, or too much Sincerity, of the Manner and Conduct of Persons in Authority, to allow of being made public. Herein they imitate Procopius, who gives this Title to a Book which he published against Justinian and his Wife...

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

  • ACHILLEIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACHILLEIS

    wherein he proposed to deliver the whole Life and Actions of that Hero. See POEM. It only takes in his Infancy, the Poet being prevented from proceeding, by Death. The Achilleid is of the Heroic or Epic Kind; but extremely faulty in the Plan, or Fable....

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