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  • ANALYTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALYTICS

    The Authors on the ancient Analytics, are enumerated by Pappus, in the Preface to his 7th Book of Mathematical Collections; being, Euclid, in his Data, and Porismata; Apollonius, de Sectione Rationis; Apollonius, in his Conics, Inclinations, and...

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

  • APOTHEOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/APOTHEOSIS

    a Procession or Cavalcade in solemn Measures around the Piles. Several Chariots also run round it, those who conduct them being clad in purple Robes, and bearing the Images of the greatest Roman Emperors and Generals. This Ceremony ended, the new...

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

  • ASPERA ARTERIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPERA%20ARTERIA

    internally: it is composed of three distinct Membranes; the first, woven of two Orders of Fibres; those of the first Order being longitudinal, for the shortening the Trachea; these make the Cartilages approach and enter one another: the other Order is...

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

  • ARACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARACK

    at Batavia they use copper stills. The Pariar Arrack, made at Madras; and the Columbo, and Quilon Arrack at other places, being fiery hot spirits, are little valued by the Europeans, and therefore rarely imported; though highly prized among the natives....

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

  • ANTANAGOGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ANTANAGOGE

    ἀνταναγωγή, a Figure in Rhetoric, when not being able to answer the Accusation of the Adversary, we return the Charge, by loading him with the same Crimes. See RECRIMINATION. ANTANAGOGE

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

  • ASSIMILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIMILATION

    luminous Nature. See FLAME, FUEL, FIRE, etc. The like we see in Vegetables, where the watery Juices imbibed from the Earth, being further prepared and digested in the Vessels of the Plant, become of a vegetable Nature, and augment the Wood, Leaves,...

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

  • ANTANACLASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ANTANACLASIS

    a Figure in Rhetoric; being a repetition of the same Word, but in a different Signification. See REPETITION. The Word comes from the Greek ἀντί, and ἀνακλάσις, repercussio, I strike again. ANTANACLASIS

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

  • ADEPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ADEPS

    Viperis (Viper's Fat); and Adeps Ursi (Bear's Fat), are all used in medicine, in the quality of Ripeners, or Drawers; as being of a penetrating nature, and thereby suited to dissolve and rarify the tumors, and bring them, as it were, to maturity. See...

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

  • ANTHEMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHEM

    written expressly of the Order of Anthems, de Antiphonarum Ordine. At present the Term is used in a somewhat narrower Sense; being applied to certain Passages taken out of the Psalms, etc., and accommodated to the particular Solemnity in hand. ANTHEM

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

  • APATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APATHY

    The Stoics affected an entire Apathy: their wise Man was to enjoy a perfect Calmness or Tranquility of Mind, incapable of being ruffled, and above the reach of any Sense either of Pleasure or Pain. See STOICS, PLEASURE, and PAIN. The Word is formed of...

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

  • AVOWRYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVOWRY

    his avowry. If he took it in the right of another, when he has showed the cause, he is to make conusance of the taking, as being a bailiff or servant to him in whose right he did it. See DISTRESS, etc. AVOWRY

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

  • ALOETICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALOETICS

    Ingredient. See ALOES. The Word is formed of aloes, which is further derived from alas, the Sea, or Salt; that Plant being chiefly found near the Sea-Coasts. ALOETICS

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

  • AVELLANEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/AVELLANE

    four Filberds in their Husks or Cases, joined together at the great End. See CROSS. Hence its Name; a Filberd in Latin being Nux Avellana.—Syl. Morgan says, it is this Cross which Ensigns the Mound of Authority, or the Sovereign’s Globe. AVELLANE

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

  • ARUSPICEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARUSPICES

    F. Pezron is positive the Word was originally formed of the Celtic aru, Liver; and specio, I look; whence Aruspex: Which being a Word somewhat rude of Pronunciation, they thence formed Aruspex. See AUSPICES. The Doctrine or discipline of the Aruspices,...

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

  • ALBUGINEAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ALBUGINEA

    called the tunica albuginea, conjunctiva, &c. See SCLERA, CONJUNCTIVA, &c. It takes the name albuginea, from its whiteness; being this that forms what we call the white of the eye. See EYE. The same term is also applied to the membrane immediately...

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

  • ANTITHENARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ANTITHENAR

    is inserted into the inside of the Os Sesamoidea. See TOE. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἀντί, against; and θέναρ, as being Antagonist to the Thenar. See THENAR. ANTITHENAR

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

  • ANGERONALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANGERONALIA

    Grief, Pain; to intimate that she gave Relief to those afflicted therewith. Others deduce it from Ango, I press, I close; as being reputed the Goddess of Silence, &c. See GOD and GODDESS. ANGERONALIA

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

  • ATTIREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/phytology/ATTIRE

    in botany, is used to denote the third part or division of the flower of a plant; the other two being the Empalement and the Foliation. See FLOWER. See also EMPALEMENT. This Attire is of two kinds; Semini-form, and Florid. The Semini-form Attire...

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

  • ANNUITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUITY

    charges only the Person of the Grantor. See RENT, WRIT, ACTION, etc. Add, that annuities are never taken for Assets; as being no Freeholds in Law. See ASSETS. The Computation of the Value of Annuities belongs to Political Arithmetic. See POLITICAL...

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

  • AZIMUTHShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZIMUTHS

    circles intersecting each other in the zenith and nadir, and cutting the horizon at right angles. See VERTICAL. The horizon being divided into 360°; for this reason they usually conceive 360 azimuths—These azimuths are represented by the rhumbs on sea...

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