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  • ANDROGYNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANDROGYNE

    or Androgynus, an Hermaphrodite; something born with two Sexes, being Male and Female in the same Person. See HERMAPHRODITE. Many of the Rabbins are of opinion, that Adam was created Androgynous; that he was Male on one Side, and Female on the other;...

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

  • AQUARIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUARIANS

    It is said the Occasion of the Abuse was owing to the Persecution which prevailed in those Times: For the Christians being then obliged to celebrate the Sacrament in the Night; found it necessary to make use of Water, lest the smell of the Wine should...

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

  • ACCIDENTALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCIDENTAL

    casual dispositions and assertions of the planets whereby they are supposed to be either strengthened or weakened by their being in such a house of the figure, etc. ACCIDENTAL

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

  • ADOLESCENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOLESCENCE

    frequently used indifferently, for any person under 45years. The word is formed from the Latin adolesco, I grow. The fibers being arrived at the degree of firmness, and tension sufficient to sustain the parts, no longer yield and give way to the efforts...

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

  • ABISHERSINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABISHERSING

    an antient Law-Term, denoting a being free, or exempt, from all Amerciaments for Transgressions of any kind. See AMERCIAMENT. This Word, in a Charter or Grant, gives the Proprietor not only the Forfeitures, and Amerciaments of all others for...

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

  • ARMILUSTRIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARMILUSTRIUM

    were used to be made, or rather from their going round the Place armed with Bucklers. And he prefers this last Opinion, being persuaded that it was from this Ceremony, that the Place where this Sacrifice was offered to the Gods, was called Armilustrium,...

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

  • APOLOGETICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOLOGETICAL

    by the tutelary Gods of the Empire. Tertullian addresses his Apologetic to the Magistrates of Rome; the Emperor Severus being then absent. APOLOGETICAL

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

  • ÆCHMALOTARCHAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ÆCHMALOTARCHA

    had Officers of this kind before the Return from Babylon; Witness the History of Susannah; the two Elders who condemned her, being Aechmalotarchae that Year.—The Jewish Writers assure us, that the Aechmalotarchae were only to be chosen out of the Tribe...

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

  • ANTHROPOPHAGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOPHAGY

    think they have discovered the Principle of Anthropophagy, and that it consists in a black acrimonious Humour, which being lodged in the Coats of the Ventricle, produces this Voracity. And they give several Instances of this inhuman Hunger, even among...

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

  • AECHMALOTARCHAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AECHMALOTARCHA

    had Officers of this kind before the Return from Babylon; Witness the History of Susannah; the two Elders who condemned her, being Aechmalotarchae that Year.—The Jewish Writers assure us, that the Aechmalotarchae were only to be chosen out of the Tribe...

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

  • ACCOMPLISHMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOMPLISHMENT

    The Accomplishment of the Prophecies of the Old Testament, in the Person of our Saviour, is the great mark of his being the Messiah. See PROPHECY. There are two ways of accomplishing a Prophecy; directly, and by Accommodation. See ACCOMMODATION. The...

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

  • ARBORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARBOR

    Tree. See DIANA’S TREE. Arbor Martis, Tree of Mars. See TREE OF MARS. Arbor Porphyriana, among the Schoolmen, is a scale of beings; or a figure, consisting of three rows or columns of words; the middlemost whereof contains the series of genera and...

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

  • ARIANISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARIANISM

    the Son was the Word, but denied that Word to have been eternal; asserting that it had only been created before all other Beings—See TRINITY, SON, FATHER, etc. This Heresy was condemned in the first Council of Nice in 325; but notwithstanding that, was...

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

  • AUGURYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGURY

    AUGURY, in Antiquity, the art of divining, or foretelling events, by the chattering, singing, and feeding of birds. See DIVINATION and AUGUR. The observation of auguries is very ancient, as having been prohibited by Moses in Leviticus—The cup put in...

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

  • ABELIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABELIANS

    ABELIANS, ABELONIANS, ABELOITES, a Sect of Hereticks in Africa, not far from Hippo, cotemporary with S. Augustin. See HERETICS. What distinguish'd 'em, was, that they made it a Duty to marry, and yet liv'd with their Wives in a prosess'd Continence,...

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

  • CHEVERONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/CHEVERON

    CHEVERON, or CHEVRON, in Heraldry, one of the honourable Ordinaries of a Shield ; representing two Rafters of a House join'd together, without any Division. See ORDINARY, &c. It descends from the Chief towards the Extremities of the Coat, in form of a...

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

  • ANALYTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALYTIC

    ANALYTIC, Analytical, something that belongs to, or partakes of the Nature of Analysis. See ANALYSIS. Thus, we say, an Analytical Demonstration; Analytical Enquiry; Analytical Table, or Scheme; Analytic Method, etc. See METHOD. The Analytic Method...

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

  • DEFORMITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/ethics/DEFORMITY

    a displeasing, or painful Idea excited in the Mind on Occasion of some Object, which wants of that Uniformity, that constitutes Beauty. See BEAUTY.'Tis an Inquiry of some Delicacy, and Importance, whether there be any such Thing as absolute Deformity....

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

  • ARMINIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMINIANS

    ARMINIANS, a religious Sect or Party, which arose in Holland, by a Separation from the Calvinists. See ARMINIANISM. The Arminians are sometimes also called Remonstrants;by reason of a Remonstrance which they presented to the States General in 1611,...

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

  • ATTRIBUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ATTRIBUTE

    ATTRIBUTE, ATTRIBUTUM, in Philosophy, a Property which agrees to some Person, or Thing; or a Quality, which determines something to be after a certain Manner. See PROPERTY and QUALITY. Thus, Understanding is an Attribute of Mind; Figure, an Attribute of...

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