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  • ACADEMICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMICKS

    ACADEMICKS, Academici, Academists, a Sect of ancient Philosophers, founded by Plato, and called, also, the Academy. See ACADEMY. The Academicks, in the later Ages, have taken the Name of Platonists. See PLATONIST. The great Dogma of the Academics was...

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

  • ACCOMMODATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCOMMODATION

    ACCOMMODATION, in Philosophy, the Application of one thing, by Analogy, to another. See ANALOGY. Thus, to know a thing by Accommodation, is to know it by the Idea of a similar thing referred thereto. A Prophecy of Scripture is said to be fulfilled...

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

  • ANCIENT DEMESNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCIENT%20DEMESNE

    ANCIENT DEMESNE, or Demain, is a Tenure, whereby all Manors belonging to the Crown in William the Conqueror’s, and St. Edward's time, were held. See TENURE and DEMESNE. The Numbers, Names, etc., hereof were entered by the Conqueror in a Book called...

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

  • ARRAYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ARRAY

    ARRAY, in Law,the ranking or ordering a Jury or Inquest of Men impaneled on any Cause. See JURY, INQUEST, etc. The Word may be derived either from the obsolete French Array, Order, or from Raye, a Line—Hence the Verb, to Array a Panel, Ann. 3 Hen. V....

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

  • ASIDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASIDE

    ASIDE,in the Drama.—An Aside, Secorsim, is something which an Actor speaks apart, or, as it were, to himself, for the Instruction of the Audience, by discovering some Sentiment which otherwise did not appear, and which is to be concealed from the rest...

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

  • ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ABACUS

    ABACUS, among the Antients, was a kind of Cupboard, or Buffet. See BUFFET. In this Sense Livy, describing the Luxury into which the Romans degenerated after the Conquest of Asia, says, They had their Abaci, Beds, &c. plated over with Gold. Dec. IV. Lib....

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

  • ASSISAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSISA

    ASSISA, or Assize, Assize. See ASSIZE. ASSISA CADERE,to fall from the Assize, in Law, is to be non-suited. See NON-SUIT. Assisa Cadit in Furatam,is where the Thing in Controversy is so doubtful, that it must necessarily be tried by a Jury. See JURY....

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

  • ÆGILOPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ÆGILOPS

    ÆGILOPS, a Tumor, or rather Ulcer, in the great Canthus or Angle of the Eye, by the Root of the Nose; either with or without an Inflammation. See EYE, TUMOR, and ULCER. The Word, in its original Greek, aigylops, signifies a Goat's Eye; in regard, Goats...

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

  • AGILOPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGILOPS

    AGILOPS, a Tumor, or rather Ulcer, in the great Canthus or Angle of the Eye, by the Root of the Nose; either with or without an Inflammation. See Eye, Tumor, and Ulcer. The Word, in its original Greek, aigylops, signifies a Goat's Eye; in regard, Goats...

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

  • ABEYANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABEYANCE

    ABEYANCE, or ABBAYANCE, an obsolete Law-Term, whose precise Signification is not easily gather'd ; having been out of date as long ago as Littleton's Days. That Author gives it, as his Sense of the Word, that to be in Abeyance is to be in the...

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

  • ANTIMONIALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANTIMONIALS

    ANTIMONIALS, in Medicine, Preparations of Antimony; of Remedies whereof Antimony is the Basis, or principal Ingredient. See ANTIMONY. Antimonials are chiefly of an emetic tendency; though they may be so qualified as to become either Cathartic, or...

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

  • ASSA-FOETIDAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSA-FOETIDA

    ASSA-FOETIDA, or Asa-Foetida, a Gum or Resin,brought from the East-Indies, of a brownish Colour, a sharp Taste, and a very strong, offensive Smell; whence it is also called Stercus Diaboli, or Devil’s Dirt. It is not known from what Plant this Gum is...

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

  • ADMINISTRATORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADMINISTRATOR

    ADMINISTRATOR, in law, is the person to whom the ordinary commits the administration of the goods of a dead man, in default of an executor. See ADMINISTRATION, WILL, EXECUTOR, etc. An action lies for or against an Administrator, as for an Executor; and...

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

  • ACCELERATED Motionhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATED%20Motion

    ACCELERATED Motion, in Mechanicks, is a Motion which receives continual Increments or Accessions of Velocity. See MOTION. If the Accessions of Velocity be equal in equal Times;the Motion is said to be uniformly accelerated. See ACCELERATION. The Motion...

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

  • ARSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARSIS

    and THESIS, a phrase in musical composition; where a point being inverted, is said to move per Arsin & Thesin; that is, rises in one part, and falls in another; or, on the contrary, falls in one part, and rises in another: Whence is produced a very...

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

  • ASHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASHES

    Fire, etc. Ashesare properly the Earth, and fixed Salts of the Fuel, which the Fire cannot raise, all the other Principles being gone off in the Smoke. See Smoke, Fuel, Fixed, Salt, etc. The Chemistsfrequently call the Ashes of a Body its Calx. See CALX...

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

  • ADJUNCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ADJUNCT

    Adjunctum, in philosophy, something added to a being from without. See ADJUNCTION. Or, an adjunct is an additament or accession to a thing, not essentially belonging to it, but only accidental thereto.See ACCIDENT. There are two kinds of adjuncts; the...

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

  • ABDOMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ABDOMEN

    Body into three Regions, or Venters ; the Head ; the Thorax, or Breast ; and the Abdomen, or Belly, absolutely so call'd ; being the lowest Part of the Trunk. 'Tis separated from the Thorax by the Diaphragm, and reaches to the Ossa pubis. See VENTER. It...

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

  • APPETITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/APPETITE

    the Will itself, acting under a competent Knowledge or Information of the thing in hand: Such is the Appetite or Desire of being happy. The second is a kind of Instinct whereby we are mechanically driven to consult our own Preservation. See INSTINCT,...

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

  • ACEPHALUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACEPHALUS

    stood neuter or dubious, hesitating about coming into the council. But the former opinion is the more probable; Acephalous being never used in the latter sense. In some writers, the Acephalous heretics are called Acephali, Acephalita. ACEPHALUS

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