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  • CARACOLhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CARACOL

    in the Manage, a Motion which the Cavalier makes hals round ; or a hals turn from Left to Right changing Hands ; that his Enemy may be uncertain on which side he intends to attack : whether in Front, or Flank. CARACOL, is also the half turn each...

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

  • ABETTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABETTER

    ABETTER, or ABETTOR, in Law, one who incites, incourages, or sets another on to perform something criminal ; or some way seconds and assists him in the Performance it self. Thus, they who procure others to sue out false Appeals of Felony, or Murder...

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

  • ATHANORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHANOR

    ATHANOR, in Alchemy, a large immovable Furnace, built of Brick or Stone, and covered with a tower-top; proper to maintain a temperate and equable degree of heat for a considerable time. See FURNACE, HEAT, etc. The Heat of the Athanor is intended or...

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

  • ANODYNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ANODYNE

    ANODYNE, in Physic, is understood of such Remedies, as by their gentle Heat and temperate Moisture, calm and assuage Pain. See PAIN. These are also called Paregorics. See PAREGORICS. There are others, which bear the same name, but improperly, viz. such...

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

  • ANOREXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANOREXY

    ANOREXY, Anorexia, in Medicine, an Inappetency, or Loss of Appetite. See APPETITE. Anorexia is properly a longer continuance than is natural, without a desire to eat. See FOOD, FASTING, DISEASE, etc. If the Thought, or the Sight of proper Food, create a...

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

  • ALTERANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALTERANT

    ALTERANT, or Alterative, in Medicine, a Property, or Power in certain Remedies, whereby they induce an Alteration in the Body, and dispose it for Health or Recovery, by correcting some Indisposition; without occasioning any sensible Evacuation. See...

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

  • ATTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTITUDE

    ATTITUDE, in painting and sculpture, the posture of a figure, or statue; or the disposition of its parts, by which we discover the action it is engaged in, and the very sentiment supposed to be in its mind. See FIGURE, STATUE, and ACTION. The...

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

  • ABBUTALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABBUTALS

    ABBUTALS, among Law-Writers, denote the Buttings or Boundings of a piece of Land ; expressing on what other Lands, Highways, or the like, the several Extremes thereof do abut, or terminate. Thus, in Croke, the Plaintiff is said to fail in his Abbutals,...

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

  • ACRIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACRIMONY

    ACRIMONY, Asperity or Sharpness, expresses a Quality in Bodies, by which they corrode, destroy, or dissolve others. See CORROSION, etc.Salts are only caustic in virtue of their Acrimony. See SALT, CAUSTIC, etc. The Acrimony of the Bile is supposed to...

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

  • ANCHOREThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCHORET

    ANCHORET, Anchorite, or Anachorite, a Hermit, or devout Person, living alone in some Desert; to be further out of the reach of the Temptations of the World, and more at leisure for Meditation. See HERMIT. ANCHORET

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

  • ACROSTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACROSTIC

    ACROSTIC, a kind of poetical composition, the verses whereof are disposed in such a manner, as that the initial letters make up some person's name, title, or a particular motto. See POEM and POETRY. The word is derived from the Greek ἄκρος, summit,...

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

  • ADOPTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOPTIVE

    ADOPTIVE, Adoptivus, or Adoptivius, a person adopted by another. See ADOPTION. The Emperor Hadrian preferred adoptive children to natural ones; by reason we choose the former, but are obliged to take the latter at random. Adoptive children, among the...

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

  • ADOPTIVIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ADOPTIVI

    ADOPTIVI, or Adoptiani, was an ancient sect in religion; thus called, from the manner in which they conceived our Savior to be the Son of God.They took their rise from Felix of Urgel, and Elipand of Toledo; the latter of whom writing to the former, for...

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

  • ANOMEANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANOMEANS

    ANOMEANS, ANOMOEANS, or ANOMIANS, ANOMOEL, or ANOMIANI, a Greek Word, composed of the privative α and ὅμοιος, similar, resembling; q.d. different, dissimilar. In the fourth Century, this was the Name by which the pure Arians were distinguished; in...

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

  • APOLOGUEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOLOGUE

    APOLOGUE, Ἀπόλογος, a moral Fable; or a feigned Relation, intended to inform, and amend the Manners. See FABLE. Such are the Fables of Aesop; whence, moral Fables are usually denominated Aesopic Fables. Julius Scaliger derives the Name from ἀπό (apo),...

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

  • APPROVERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROVER

    APPROVER, one who confessing Felony in himself, appealeth or impeacheth another or more of his Accomplices. See APPEAL. He is so called because he must prove what he hath alleged in his Appeal. This Proof should either be by Battle, or by the Country,...

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

  • AUSPICEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUSPICES

    AUSPICES, in antiquity, a sort of priests or soothsayers, appointed to observe the flight of birds, and thence to form presages of future events. See DIVINATION. The auspices were thus call’d, quasi avispices, ab avibus inspiciendis—They are ordinarily...

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

  • AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION

    AGNATION, in Civil Law, the bond of consanguinity or relation between the male descendants of the same father; as Cognation is the bond of relation between all the descendants of the same father, both males and females. See COGNATION. The difference,...

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

  • ACHERNERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ACHERNER

    ACHERNER or Acn miner, in astronomy, a constellation of the first magnitude in the sign Pisces. Its longitude, latitude, etc. can be seen under the article Pisces. ACHERNER

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

  • ALKERMEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALKERMES

    ALKERMES, in Medicine, &c., a Term borrowed from the Arabs.—The Confection of Alkermes, is a celebrated Remedy, of the Form and Consistence of a Confection - whereof the Kermes Berries are the Basis. See CONFECTION and KERMES.The other Ingredients, as...

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