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  • ANTIBACCHIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ANTIBACCHIC

    the two first whereof are long, and the third short. See FOOT. Such are the Words cantare, virtute. It is so called as being contrary to the Bacchic, the first Syllable whereof is Short, and the two last long; as egebas. See BACCHIC. ANTIBACCHIC

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

  • ALBUMEN Ovihttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALBUMEN%20Ovi

    Ovi, the white of an Egg. See EGG. It is used in Medicine, as being of a glutinous or binding Nature, on which Account it is often mixed with Bole Armeniac, &c. to prevent any strained Part from rising into a Tumor, and restore it to its Tone or...

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

  • ACATALECTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ACATALECTIC

    CATALECTIC. The Words come from ἀρτίως, define; whence ἀκατάλεκτος, which wants something at the End; and the Privative α being prefixed ἀκατάλεκτος, which wants nothing at the End. In the following Strophe of Horace, the two first Verses are...

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

  • ALEXANDRINEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ALEXANDRINE

    in Poetry, the Name of a kind of Verse, which consists of twelve and thirteen Syllables alternately; the rest or Pause being always on the sixth Syllable. See VERSE. It is said to have taken its Name from a Poem on the Life of Alexander, intitled, the...

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

  • AUTUMNAL POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTUMNAL%20POINT

    POINT; is one of the equinoctial points; being that from which the sun begins to descend towards the North Pole. See EQUINOCTIAL POINT. AUTUMNAL POINT

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

  • AURUM MOSAICUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURUM%20MOSAICUM

    sal ammoniac, and flowers of sulphur, by grinding, mixing, then setting them three hours in a sand heat—The dirty sublimate being taken off, the aurum mosaicum is found at the bottom of the matras. It is recommended in most chronical and nervous cases:...

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

  • ARCH-CHANCELLORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH-CHANCELLOR

    they had three Arch-Chancellors;and hence the three arch chancellors still subsisting in Germany, theArchbishop of Mainz being Arch-Chancellor of Germany,the Archbishop of Cologne of Italy, and the Archbishop of Trier of Arles. Bern. de Mallinckroth, in...

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

  • ANTARCTIC Circlehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTARCTIC%20Circle

    parallel to the Equator, at the distance of 23 deg. 30 min. from the South Pole. See CIRCLE. It takes its Name from its being opposite to another Circle, parallel likewise to the Equator, and at the same distance from the North Pole; called the Arctic...

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

  • ACCEDAS ad Curiamhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCEDAS%20ad%20Curiam

    is a Writ which lies for him who has received false Judgment, or fears Partiality, in a Court-Baron, or Hundred Court; being directed to the Sheriff.—The like Writ lies also for him that has received such Judgment in the County-Court, and is called de...

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

  • DECADAL ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DECADAL%20ARITHMETIC

    Figures, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; after which we begin 10, 11, 12, etc. This Method of Computation is not very ancient, being utterly unknown to the Greeks and Romans.—It was introduced into Europe by Gerbert, afterwards Pope, under the Name of...

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

  • AGENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AGENT

    AGENT, Agents, in Physics, refers to something by which an action is done or effected; or which has the power to act upon another and by its action induces some change in the other. See ACT and ACTION. The word Agent is used interchangeably with...

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

  • AGUEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGUE

    AGUE, periodical Disease, consisting in a cold shivering Fit, succeeded by a hot one; and going off in a Diaphoresis, or Sweating. See DISEASE.If the Coldness and Shivering be inconsiderable, and only the hot Fit felt; the Disease is called an...

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

  • CHESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game/CHESS

    CHESS, a fashionable Game, perform'd with little round Pieces of Wood, on a Board divided into 64 Squares; where Art and Address are so indispensibly requisite, that Chance seems to have no place; and a Person never loses but by his own Fault. On each...

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

  • APOGEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APOGEE

    APOGEE, ἀπόγειος in Astronomy, that Point in the Orbit of the Sun, or a Planet, which is furthest distant from the Earth. See ORBIT and EARTH. The Apogee is a Point in the Heavens, at the Extreme of the Line of the Apsides; in which the Sun, or a...

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

  • AZYMUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZYMUS

    AZYMUS, something not fermented, or that is without leaven. See FERMENT and LEAVEN. The term azymus is much used in the disputes betwixt those of the Greek and Romish Church; the latter of whom contend, that the bread in the mass ought to be azymus,...

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

  • ANGLINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLING

    ANGLING, the Art of catching Fish by means of a Rod, with Line, Hook and Bait fitted thereto. See FISH and FISHING. There are several prudential Rules observed by thorough Anglers; as, not to wear any white or shining Apparel, but be clothed in a dark...

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

  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    ADULTERY, Adulterium, in our ancient law-books called Advowtry, a crime committed by married persons, against the faith pledged to each other in marriage; by having carnal commerce with someone else: or even by a person not married; by having to do with...

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

  • AREOPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AREOPAGUS

    AREOPAGUS, in Antiquity, a celebrated tribunal ofthe Athenians. Some imagine the Areopagus the proper name of acourt of justice, situated on a hill, in Athens; and that inthis court the senate of that illustrious city assembled. Others say that...

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

  • ANTIPATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPATHY

    ANTIPATHY, Antipathia, a natural Enmity, or Aversion of one Body to another. In this Sense, the Word stands opposed to Sympathy. See SYMPATHY. Such is commonly said to be between the Salamander and the Tortoise, the Vine and the Elm, the Toad and the...

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

  • ARTIFICIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTIFICIAL

    ARTIFICIAL,Artificalis, something made by Art; not produced naturally, or in the common Course of Things. See ART. © Art is usually considered as a Thing very different from Nature; and artificial Things, from natural ones: Whence arises another more...

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