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  • ACRIDOPHAGIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ACRIDOPHAGI

    ACRIDOPHAGI, in the ancient Geography, a Nation of People said to feed on Locusts —The Word is compounded of the Greek ἀκρίς, Locust, and φαγε, I eat.The Acridophagi are represented as a People of Ethiopia, inhabiting near the Deserts.—In the Spring...

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

  • ARCHBISHOPRIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHBISHOPRIC

    ARCHBISHOPRIC, Archepiscopatus, the dignity of archbishop; or the province under his jurisdiction. See ARCHBISHOP. There are two archbishoprics in England, viz. of Canterbury and York; the prelates whereof are called primates and metropolitans. See...

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

  • ADULThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULT

    ADULT, Adultus, one who has come to the years of discretion; who has entered upon manhood, or the age of adolescence; and is old and big enough to have understanding and discernment. See AGE. The word is formed from the participle of the verb adolesco,...

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

  • ALIENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALIEN

    ALIEN, in Law, a Person born out of the King’s Allegiance, and consequently not capable of inheriting Lands in England, till naturalized by Act of Parliament. See NATURALIZATION.Of these there are two Kinds, viz. Alien-Friends, who are of those...

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

  • ACCORDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCORD

    ACCORD, in Law, is an agreement between two, at the least, to satisfy an offense that one has committed against the other; whether it be a trespass or such like thing, for which he has agreed to satisfy him. This, when executed, becomes a good bar in...

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

  • ANGINAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANGINA

    ANGINA, in Medicine, a Disease, popularly called the Quinsy, Squinancy, or Squinancy. See SQUINANCY. Angina is a Difficulty of Respiration and Deglutition, from a Disease in the Muscles and Glands about the Throat and Larynx. See LARYNX, &c. The Word is...

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

  • ADIPOSAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ADIPOSA

    ADIPOSA, or Adiposa Membrana, in anatomy, is a membrane investing the body, immediately under the cutis;supposed to be the basis of the fat, which is lodged in the spaces between its fibers and in peculiar cells formed herein. See FAT, CUTIS, etc....

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

  • APOTOMEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOTOME

    APOTOME, in Mathematics, the remainder or difference of two incommensurable Quantities. See INCOMMENSURABLE. An Apotome is an irrational Residue, as CB, arising when from a rational Line AC, called ἄλφα (alpha), you cut off a rational part AB, called...

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

  • ALIMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ALIMENT

    ALIMENT, Alimentum, Food, in a physical Sense, is whatever may be dissolved and turned into Chyle, by the Liquor of the Stomach, or the Natural Heat; so as to be afterwards converted into Blood, for augmenting the Body, or repairing the continual...

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

  • AXUNGIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXUNGIA

    AXUNGIA, a kind of fat, the softest and moistest of any in the bodies of animals. See FAT. It is different from lard, which is a firm fat; and from suet leaf, or adeps, which is a kind of dry fat. The Latins distinguish fat into pinguedo, called also...

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

  • AMALGAMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAM

    AMALGAM, or Amalgama, in Chemistry, a Mass of Mercury, united and incorporated with a Metal. See MERCURY, and METAL. The Amalgam of Mercury with Lead, is a soft, friable Substance, of a Silver Colour. See LEAD. By washing and grinding this Amalgam with...

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

  • ASSAULThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSAULT

    ASSAULT, in Law, is a violent Injury offered to a Man’sPerson, of a larger Extent than Battery, for that it may becommitted by only offering to give a Blow, or by a threatening Speech, etc. See BATTERY. To rebuke a Collector with foul Words, so that he...

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

  • ABACTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABACTOR

    a barbarous Latin Word, retain'd in our Dictionaries as a Law-Term, tho never yet naturaliz'd, nor its Idea agreed on. Literally, it imports the same with Abigeus, or as others write it, Abigevus, or Abigens ; form'd of Abigo, I drive away, q. d. a...

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

  • ACROMIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ACROMION

    ACROMION, Acromium, in Anatomy, the upper Process of the Omoplate, or Shoulder-Bone. See OMOPLATE.The Word is derived from ἄκρος, extremity, and ὦμος, shoulder, i.e., the Extremity of the Shoulder, and not from Anchor, on account of any similarity in...

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

  • ABORTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABORTIVE

    ABORTIVE, something come before its due time, or before it has arriv'd at its Maturity and Persedion. See ABORTION. F. Jerom Florentius has an express Treatise of the Baptism of Abortives, or abortive Children. His Aim is to shew that an Abortive may,...

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

  • ADVOWSONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVOWSON

    ADVOWSON, or Advowzen, Advoterie, Advocatia, or Advocatio, the Quality, or Office of an Advowee, or Advocate, etc. See ADVOWEE, etc. Advowson, or Advouzen, in Common Law, signifies a right to present to a Benefice. See PRESENTATION. In this sense, the...

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

  • ASSIGNEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSIGNEE

    ASSIGNEE, in Law,a Person to whom a Thing is appointed, or assigned, to be occupied, paid, or done. See ASSIGN. An Assignee differs from a Deputy in this, that the Assignee possesses or enjoys the thing in his own Right, and a Deputy in the Right of...

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

  • ACHILLEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACHILLES

    ACHILLES, a Name which the Schools give to the principal Argument alleged by each School of Philosophers in their behalfs. See SECT.In this Sense, we say, this is his Achilles; that is, his Malleus-Proof: Alluding to the Strength and Importance of...

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

  • AVERMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVERMENT

    AVERMENT, in Law, usually signifies an Offer of the Defendant to make good, or justify an Exception pleaded in Abatement or Bar of the Plaintiff's Action. The Word also signifies the Act as well as the Offer of justifying the Exception. Averment is...

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

  • ALLUVIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALLUVION

    ALLUVION, Alluvio, in the Civil Law, an Accessior or Accretion made along the Sea-shore, or the Banks of large Rivers, by means of Tempests or Inundations, Accretion, &c. The Civil Law places Alluvio among the lawful means of Acquisition; and defines it...

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