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  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    Copies, which " were afterwards imitated by the rest."As to the Greek Accents, now seen both in the manuscript and printed Books, there has been no less Dispute about their Antiquity and Use than about those of the Hebrews.— Isaac Vossius, in an express...

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

  • ALCHYMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCHYMY

    Thus, Suidas will have the Secret of the Philosopher’s Stone couched in the Fable of the Argonauts; others find it in the Books of Moses, &c. But, if the Age of the Art be examined by the Monuments of History; it will lose a deal of this fancied...

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

  • ANTICHRISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICHRIST

    at the end of the World. Father Malvenda, a Spanish Jesuit, has published a large and learned Work, de Antichristo, in XIII Books. In the first, he relates all the Opinions of the Fathers with regard to Antichrist. In the second, he speaks of the Times...

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

  • ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT

    and Cbaldee, became at length a Title of Dignity and Honour. The Jewish Doctors affected it ; and one of their most antient Books, containing the Sayings, or Apothegms of divers of 'em, is entitled, Pirke Abbot, or Avoth, i. e. Chapter of the Fathers....

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

  • ARGUMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ARGUMENT

    The second, are borrowed from abroad, and only applied by the Orator to the Point in hand; such are Laws, common Report, Books, Oaths, Torture, and Witnesses. See LAW, OATH, TORTURE, etc. A late Author divides the Places or general Heads of Arguments,...

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

  • DEFTARDARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/DEFTARDAR

    High Treasurer; and Præfes Camera, President of the Exchequer; And Castellus makes him the Keeper, and Comptroller of the Books of Receipt, and Payment.The Deftardar, or as Vigenere calls him, the Dephterder, has in his Charge the Rolls, and Accounts of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • AUDITORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITOR

    king, or some other great person, who yearly, by examining the accounts of under officers accountable, makes up a general book, with the difference between their receipts and charge, and their allowances or allocations. See ACCOUNT. AUDITORS OF THE...

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

  • APOSTLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTLE

    Epistles of St. Paul, printed in the Order wherein they are to be read in Churches, through the Course of the Year. Another Book of the like kind, containing the Gospels, is called Εὐαγγέλιον (Euangelion), Gospel. The Apostle, of late Days, has also...

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

  • ANCIENT DEMESNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCIENT%20DEMESNE

    St. Edward's time, were held. See TENURE and DEMESNE. The Numbers, Names, etc., hereof were entered by the Conqueror in a Book called Domesday-Book, yet remaining in the Exchequer; so that such Lands as by that Book appeared to have belonged to the...

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

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    is an officer of the Navy. See CLERK and NAVY. Acts are also matters of fact transmitted to posterity in certain authentic books and memoirs. In this sense, we say, the Acts of the Apostles, Acts of the Martyrs, etc. The Acts of Pilate relating to Jesus...

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

  • AQUAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/hydrology/AQUA

    of its weight of Sal-Ammoniac, and then stain therewith Ivory, Hairs, and Bones, of a fine purple Colour. There are, also, Book-Binders, who throw it on Leather, and thereby make fine marble Covers for Books. See MARGRINE; Boox-B1ND- inc, &c. And there...

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

  • AShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AS

    εἷς, one, i.e., an entire Thing; as above noted. Goodwin will have it named As, quasi Axis, because made of ads at rate nine Books De ejus partibus, of the As and its Parts.

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

  • AVERTAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVERTA

    in our Law Books, properly signify Oxen or Horses used for the Plough; but in a general Sense, any Cattle. When mention is made of one Beast, they say, Quidam equus, vel quidam bos: When of two, or more, they do not say Egui or Bowes, but Averia.

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

  • ACCOUNThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOUNT

    order or commission. See COMPANY, COMMISSION, FACTORAGE, etc. Account or accounts are also used collectively for the several books or registers which merchants keep of their affairs and negotiations. See BOOK-KEEPING, etc. Hence, to make out an account;...

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

  • ADDITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDITION

    See AGGREGATION, ACCRETION, etc. Addition is also used for the additament or the thing added itself. In new editions of books, authors often make additions; they frequently make needless additions, in lieu of retrenching superfluities and impertinences....

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

  • ALLEGORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLEGORY

    TYPE. In effect, Allegory has a good Share in most Religions. The Jews, we know, abound with them: Philo Judaeus has three Books, Of the Allegories in the History of the Six Days. See HEXAMERON. Nor are the Heathens without Allegories in their Religion:...

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

  • ANGELICAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGELICA

    called Angeli, who by these Prayers animae saluti succurrebant. —Hence, where we read the Phrase ad succurrendum in our old Books, it must be understood of one who had put on the Habit, and was at the Point of Death. ANGELICI, were an ancient Order of...

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

  • APPARATUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPARATUS

    the Bladder; from which it is extracted through an Incision in the perineum. Apparatus is also used as the Title of several Books composed in form of Catalogues, or Dictionaries; for the Ease and Convenience of Study. The Apparatus upon Cicero, is a...

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

  • ACCOMMODATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCOMMODATION

    be translated, by Accommodation, a Printer; as it originally signifies those who made it their Business to furnish Copies of Books, before the Invention of Printing. Accommodation is also used for an amicable Agreement, or Composition between the two...

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

  • ANTIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTI

    the Anti of M. Baillet; and the Anti-Baillet of M. Menage. There are also Anti-Menagiana, etc. Caesar the Dictator wrote two Books by way of Answer to what had been objected to him by Cato; which he called Anti-Catones; mentioned by Juvenal, Cicero,...

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