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  • ATTACHINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTACHING

    ATTACHING, or ATTACHMENT, in law, the taking or apprehending a person or thing by commandment or writ. See COMMANDMENT and WRIT. The word is formed of the French attacher, to fasten, tie; and that from the corrupt Latin attachiare, of attexere, to weave...

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

  • ATTAINTEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINTED

    ATTAINTED, in law, is used for a person found guilty of some crime or offence, particularly of felony or treason. See ATTAINDER. Yet a man is said to be attainted of disseisin; and so it is used in French: as, être attaint, & vaincu en aucun cas, is to...

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

  • ARSACIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARSACIDES

    ARSACIDES, Arsacidae, the descendants of Arsaces, King of Parthia. This Arsaces, according to the Persian Chronicles, was of the lineage of Cyrus; though others affirm that he was descended from Darius.—Be this as it will, Arsaces having freed the...

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

  • ACCUSATIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ACCUSATIVE

    ACCUSATIVE, in Grammar, the fourth Case of Nouns that are declined. See CASE, and NOUN. Its Use may be conceived from this, That all Verbs which express Actions that pass from the Agent, as, to beat, to break, &c., must have Subjects to receive those...

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

  • ASARABACKAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASARABACKA

    ASARABACKA, or Assana-Bacara, a Plant mentioned by Pliny and Dioscorides, under the Name of theWild Nardus; by us called Asanum. Avicenna relates, that it is brought from Chind; that itsRoots resemble those of Gramen, or Dog’s-Tooth; but thatit has a...

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

  • AUDITORIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITORIUM

    AUDITORIUM, AUDITORY, in the ancient churches, was that part of the church where the AUDITORES stood to hear, and be instructed. See CHURCH. The auditorium was that part now call’d NAVE of the church. See NAVE. In the primitive times, the church was so...

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

  • ABSTEMIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTEMIOUS

    ABSTEMIOUS, is properly understood of such Persons as refrain absolutely from Wine. Pliny more expresly says, Vini abstemius ; and Apuleius, Invinius. In the Religious Sense of the Word, they are said to be Abstemious, who in the Sacrament of the Supper...

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

  • ALTERNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALTERNATION

    ALTERNATION, a Term sometimes used for the divers Changes, or Alterations of Order, in any Number of Things proposed. See CHANCE. This is also called Permutation, etc., and is easily found, by a continual Multiplication of all the Numbers, beginning at...

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

  • APPLICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/APPLICATION

    APPLICATION, in Theology, is particularly used for the Act whereby our Saviour transfers, or makes over to us what he had earned or purchased by his holy Life, and Death. 'Tis by this Application of the Merits of Christ, that we are to be justified; and...

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

  • ANNIHILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIHILATION

    ANNIHILATION, the Act of reducing a Substance into Nothing; or of totally destroying and taking away its Existence. See SUBSTANCE and EXISTENCE. Annihilation stands opposed to Creation: The one supposes something made out of nothing, the other nothing...

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

  • ARGYRASPIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARGYRASPIDES

    ARGYRASPIDES, in Antiquity, Persons armed with Silver Bucklers, or Bucklers silvered. See BUCKLER. The Argyraspides, according to Quintus Curtius, Lib. iv. c. 13, made the second Corps of Alexander's Army, the first were the Phalanx. See PHALANX....

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

  • AUGMENTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUGMENTATION

    AUGMENTATION, AUGMENTATIO, the act of augmenting; that is, of adding or joining something to another, to render it larger, or more considerable. See ADDITION, ACCESSION, ACCRETION, AMPLIFICATION, etc. AUGMENTATION is also used for the augment; i.e. the...

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

  • ACCOMPANYMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOMPANYMENT

    ACCOMPANYMENT, something attending, or added as a Circumstance to another; either by way of Ornament, or for the sake of Symmetry, or the like. See CIRCUMSTANCE. The Music, in Dramatic Performances, should only be a simple Accompaniment. The Organists...

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

  • ANTHROPOPATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOPATHY

    ANTHROPOPATHY, a Figure, Expression or Discourse, whereby something is attributed to God, which properly belongs only to Man. Anthropopathy is frequently used promiscuously with Anthropology; yet in strictness, they ought to be distinguished as the...

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

  • ADIPOSE Cellshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADIPOSE%20Cells

    ADIPOSE Cells, Cellulae Adiposae or Loculi Adiposi.See CELLULAE ADIPOSAE. Adipose Ducts, Ductus Adiposi. See DUCTUS ADIPOSI. Malpighi starts a doubt whether the adipose ducts may not be propagated from the fibers which abound in the spleen; or those...

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

  • APPROPRIATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROPRIATION

    APPROPRIATION, the Act of appropriating, or applying a Church-Benefice, which of its own Nature is jus divini, and no Person’s Patrimony, to the proper and perpetual Use of some Religious Community. See APPROPRIATE. Appropriation is where the Advowson...

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

  • ANTEJURAMENTUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTEJURAMENTUM

    ANTEJURAMENTUM, an Oath which both the Accuser and Accused were obliged to make before any Trial or Purgation. The Accuser was to swear that he would prosecute the Criminal; and the Accused was to make Oath on the very Day that he was to undergo the...

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

  • ARCTICK CIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCTICK%20CIRCLE

    ARCTICK CIRCLE, is a lesser circle of the sphere, parallel to the equator, and 23° 30’ distant from the North Pole; from whence its name. See CIRCLE and SPHERE. This, and its opposite, the Antarctic, are called the two polar circles; and may be...

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

  • ÆSTIMATIO Capitishttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ÆSTIMATIO%20Capitis

    ÆSTIMATIO Capitis, in our ancient Law-Books.Were, WERELADE, WEREGILD, etc.King Athelstan, in a great Assembly held at Exeter, declared what Mulcts were to be paid pro æstimatione capitis, for Offences committed against several Persons according to their...

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

  • ACEAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACEA

    ACEA, in Antiquity, solemn Feasts and Combats, celebrated in Aegina, in honor of Aeacus; who had been their King, and who, on account of his singular Justice upon Earth, was supposed to have a Commission given him, to be one of the Judges in Hell. See...

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