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

    something set aside that comes from an uncertain Author, whereon much credit cannot be reposed. Thus we say, an Apocryphal Book, Passage, History, etc., meaning, such as are of suspected Authority—In Matters of Doctrine, the Writings of Heretics,...

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

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

    five times. See PENTACROSTIC. The name Acrostics is also applied by some authors to two ancient epigrams in the first book of the Anthology; the one in honor of Bacchus, the other of Apollo: each consists of 25 verses; the first whereof is the...

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

  • ALMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMS

    This Practice they had borrowed from the Jewish Synagogue, where it still obtains.Leon de Modena describes it in the 1st Book of the Ceremonies and Customs of those of his Nation, C. XIV. The Jews call Alms, Tzedakah, i.e., Justice—The Evangelists and...

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

  • ARMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARM

    will augment its Effect: A good Stone thus armed, will lift above 150 times more than before. See MAGNETISM. Kircher, in his Book "De Magnete," tells us, that the best way to arm a Lodestone, is to drill a Hole through the Stone from Pole to Pole, and...

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

  • ERAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ERA

    says, that in Cicero and Lucilius, the Word Era is plural, and signifies the same thing with Commentaria, Leaves of a Book of Accounts, or a Merchant's Journal. Others, according to the same Author, are of opinion that Era was used instead of Hera, for...

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

  • ADVERBhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ADVERB

    joined to a verb, to show how, or when, or where, one is, does, or suffers: As, the boy paints neatly, writes it; the book is there, etc. Not that the adverb is confined purely to verbs; but because that is its most ordinary use—We frequently find it...

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

  • ÆRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ÆRA

    says, that in Cicero and Lucilius, the Word Era is plural, and signifies the same thing with Commentaria, Leaves of a Book of Accounts, or a Merchant's Journal. Others, according to the same Author, are of opinion that Era was used instead of Hera, for...

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

  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    of this Art, we are much in the dark. The Invention is usually attributed to Diophantus, a Greek Author, who wrote thirteen Books, though only six of them are extant, first published by Xylander in 1575; and since commented on and improved by Gaspar...

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

  • ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE

    a little Part or Division of a Book, Writing, or the like—Aquinas divides his Sum of Theology, into several Questions; and each Question into divers Articles—Such an Account consists of so many Articles. Article is also used for the several Clauses, or...

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

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    time, Basil Valentine having found a method of preparing, and correcting the dangerous Qualities of its Sulphur, published a Book, entitled Currus Triumphalis Antimonii, wherein he maintained it a sure Remedy for all Diseases—But, in spite of all he...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • APOGRAPHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOGRAPH

    Ἀπόγραφον, a Copy or Transcript of some Book or Writing. See COPY. In this sense the Word stands opposed to Autograph; as a Copy to an Original. See AUTOGRAPH. It is formed of ἀπό (apo), away, from, and γράφω (grapho), I write. APOGRAPH

    • 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

  • ALMAGESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMAGEST

    the Name of a celebrated Book, composed by Ptolemy; being a Collection of many of the Observations and Problems of the Ancients, relating both to Geometry and Astronomy. In the Original Greek it was called syvTagsis yezisn, q. de Greatest Construction,...

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

  • 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

  • ABATEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABATEMENT

    and his Heir, is said to abate. See DISSEISIN. Coke on Littleton distinguishes between Abatement and Intrusion ; but the new Book of Entries renders Abatement by Intrusio. See INTRUSION. ABATEMENT

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

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

    of an object; if that quality is the object itself, which we speak of, it becomes a substantive;e.g., If I say, "this book is good," "good" here is an adjective.But if I say, "Good is always to be chosen," it is evident "Good"is the subject I speak of;...

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

  • 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

  • ANECDOTEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANECDOTES

    and Conduct of Persons in Authority, to allow of being made public. Herein they imitate Procopius, who gives this Title to a Book which he published against Justinian and his Wife Theodora; and seems to be the only Person among the Ancients, who has...

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    directed by the Stars. See WILL; ACTION, etc. The Professors hereof maintain, "That the Heavens are one great Volume, or Book wherein God has wrote the History of the World; and in which every Man may read his own Fortune, and the Transactions of his...

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

  • ACCIDENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCIDENCE

    ACCIDENCE, Accidentia, a Name used for a little Book, containing the first Elements or Rudiments of the Latin Tongue. See GRAMMAR. ACCIDENCE

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