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  • APPEALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPEAL

    etc. There are Appeals from Ecclesiastical Justice to Secular. The first Instance is that of Paulus Samosatenus, who being condemned and deposed by the second Council of Antioch, refused to surrender the Episcopal House to Domnus, who had been elected...

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

  • ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN

    Heresies of the Nestorians, Eutychians, &c., had been condemned by Oecumenical Councils; many Bishops, Priests, Monks, &c., being driven into the Deserts of Arabia and Egypt, furnished the Imposter with Passages, and crude ill-conceived Doctrines out of...

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

  • ANATOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/anatomy

    the first as inhuman, the latter as subservient to Witchcraft: And Olearius assures us, that one Quirin, a German Surgeon, being found with a Skeleton, hardly escaped with his life; and the Skeleton, after being solemnly dragged about the Streets, was...

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

  • ADVOCATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADVOCATE

    part of the office of a lawyer among us, viz. the pleading part; for as to giving counsel, they never meddled with it: that being the business of the jurisconsults. See JURISCONSULTUS. The Romans, in the first ages of their state, held the profession of...

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

  • ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT

    &c. See IDEA, SIMPLE, COMPLEX, &c. Thus, Magnitude and Humanity are Abstracts when consider'd in themselves, and without being attached to any particular Body, or Person ; tho they cannot have any real Subsistence without such Subjects, nor the Subjects...

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

  • ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI

    as that the Heavens themselves first received their Existence from the Fecundity of the same Spirit: For that this Anima, being the primary Source of Life, everywhere breathed a Spirit like itself, by virtue whereof various kinds of things were framed...

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

  • APPROXIMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/APPROXIMATION

    exactly. See ROOT. We have divers methods of Approximation delivered by Wallis, Raphson, Halley, Howard, etc., all of them being no other than Series's infinitely converging, or approaching still nearer to the Quantity required, according to the Nature...

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

  • TO THE KINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/to-the-king

    SIR, THE ARTS and SCIENCES humbly crave Audience of Your Majesty. The near Concern they have in the Happiness of a People, assures 'em of the favourable Attention of a Prince who makes that Happiness his own. 'Tis by These, the Parsimony of Nature is...

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

  • APOPLEXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/APOPLEXY

    APOPLEXY, in Medicine, a sudden Privation of all the Senses, and all the sensible Motions of the Body, excepting that of the Heart and Lungs; attended with a great Depravation of the principal Faculties of the Soul. See SENSATION, MOTION, etc. It...

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

  • ATHEISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHEIST

    who has no Religion, true nor false. See GOD, PROVIDENCE, RELIGION. In general, a Man is said to be an Atheist who owns no Being superior to Nature, that is, to Men and the other sensible Beings in the World. See NATURE. In this Sense, Spinoza may be...

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

  • ASTHMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ASTHMA

    and if the Paroxysm returns, Epispastics, with Glysters instead of Purges.—Infusions of Figs, Equin., or the Juice thereof, being detergent and attenuating, are reputed excellent. Lixiviums also contribute to the Cure, Sillepedes, Spirit of Gum...

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

  • APOCRYPHALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCRYPHAL

    contained some Mysteries not fit to be known—for this reason, the Books of the Sibyls were anciently called apocryphal, as being committed to the Trust of the Decemviri alone; and for the like reason, the Annals of the Egyptians and Lydians were called...

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

  • ANTECEDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTECEDENT

    Consequent. See CONSEQUENT. Thus in the Syllogism cogito, ergo sum, I think, and therefore exist; cogito is the Antecedent; being thus called because it precedes the ergo, or the copula of the Argument. ANTECEDENT, in Mathematics, is the former of the...

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

  • ABSCESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSCESS

    Name Abscess comes from the Latin Verb abscedere, to depart, or remove to another Place; in allusion to the morbid Humors being deriv'd from elsewhere. Abscesses arise oftenest in Women after Delivery ; and tho dangerous in themselves, yet appear to be...

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

  • APHELIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APHELION

    the Earth’s or a Planet’s Orbit, in which it is the farthest distant from the Sun that it can be. See ORBIT. Thus a Planet being in A, (Tab. Astronomy, fig. 1) its utmost Distance from the Sun S is said to be in its Aphelion. See PLANET, SUN, etc. In...

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

  • ADJECTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ADJECTIVE

    or ADNOUN, in Grammar, a kind of noun joined with a noun substantive, either expressed or understood, to show its manner of being, that is, its qualities or accidents. See NOUN, etc. The word is formed from the Latin "adjicere," meaning "to add to"; as...

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

  • AMALGAMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAMATION

    among Goldsmiths, and Gilders, who by this means render Gold fluid and ductile for their Purposes—Such Mixture or Amalgama being laid on any other Metal, for instance, Copper; and this afterwards placed on the Fire to evaporate; the Gold will be left...

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

  • ADYTUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ADYTUM

    See DIPHTHONG. Authors are by no means agreed as to the Use of the AE.—Some, out of regard to Etymology, insist on its being retained in all Words, particularly Technical ones, borrowed from those Languages; while others, from a Consideration that it is...

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

  • ABLATIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ABLATIVE

    of Cases is borrow'd, the Ablative is only a sort of Supernumerary, or Supplement to the Cases. The five proper Cases not being sound sufficient to express all the Relations of Things to each other recourse was had to an expedient ; viz. the putting a...

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

  • ARCUATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCUATION

    Pruning, etc. The first thing here done, is to procure large strong mother-plants, which the author calls stools. These beingplanted in a trench, will throw out twenty, thirty, forty, or fifty plants apiece; which may be begun to lay about Michaelmas...

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