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  • ANNIENTEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIENTED

    a Term sometimes used in Law Books, in the sense of frustrated, or annulled. It is of French origin; being formed of the Verb Annientir, to bring to nothing, annihilate. ANNIENTED

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

  • ANTIPTOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ANTIPTOSIS

    ANTIQUARY, Antiquarius, a Person who studies and searches after Monuments and Remains of the Ancients; as, old Medals, old Books, old Statues, Sculptures, and Inscriptions, and, in general, all curious Pieces that may afford any light into Antiquity....

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

  • ATTACHIAMENTA BONORUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTACHIAMENTA%20BONORUM

    BONORUM, in our ancient law books, denotes a distress taken upon the goods or chattels of any person, sued for personal estate, or debt, by the legal attachiators or bailiffs, as a security to answer the action.

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

  • ATLAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLAS

    are received within its two lower Cavities, by means of which they are articulated together. Atlas is also a Title given to Books of universal Geography containing Maps of the known Parts of the World; as if they were viewed from the Top of that...

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

  • ARCHIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHIVE

    are in the Rolls-Office. See CHANCERY, ROLLS, etc. The Code calls archivum publicum, or armarium publicum where acts and books were displayed, Code de fid. instr. Auth, & xxx. q-t- 1. The word comes from the Latin arca (from arceo, to enclose), a chest...

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

  • ASCETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCETIC

    derived from the Greek ἀσκητής, which is formed from ἄσκησις, I exercise. The Term Asceticis also used as a Title of several Books of Spiritual Exercises: As, the Ascetics, or devout Treatises of St. Basil, Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia. We also...

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

  • ASSOILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSOILE

    our ancient Law Books, signifies to absolve, deliver, or set free from an Excommunication. See ABSOLUTION, EXCOMMUNICATION, etc. ASSOILE

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

  • ANSCOTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANSCOTE

    in our ancient Law Books, the same with Escheat. See ESCHEAT and LAW. ANSCOTE

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

  • AVENTUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVENTURE

    or rather ADVENTURE, in our Law Books, a Mischance, causing the Death of a Man, without Felony; as, when he is suddenly drowned, or burnt by any Misleap or Mischance, falling into the Water or Fire. See MISADVENTURE, CHANCE, etc. AVENTURE

    • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST

    declares he first observed it in Paracelsus, as a Word that was unknown before the Time of that Author, who in his second Book, De viribus Membrorum, treating of the Liver, has these Words: Eft etiam Alkahett liquor, magnam hepatis conservandi &...

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

  • ANALYTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALYTICS

    is chiefly in Point of Analytics. The Authors on the ancient Analytics, are enumerated by Pappus, in the Preface to his 7th Book of Mathematical Collections; being, Euclid, in his Data, and Porismata; Apollonius, de Sectione Rationis; Apollonius, in his...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    were not the only Persons who disputed the Truth of Antipodes. Lucretius had done it before them at the end of his first Book, v.10, 63, etc. See also PLUTARCH, lib. de Facie in Orbe Lunae, and Pliny, who refutes the Opinion, lib. ii. c. 65. ANTIPODES

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

  • ALLEGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLEGATION

    the Citation, or Quotation of an Authority, Book, Passage, &c. to make good any Point, or Assertion. See QUOTATION, CITATION, AUTHORITY, &c.

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

  • ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION

    only what is sound alike in all. — Thus it is that I say, I love my Friend, love my Mistress, love my self, my Bottle, my Book, my Ease, &c.— Not that it is possible I should have the same Sensation with respect to so many different sorts of things,...

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

  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    esteemed themselves obliged thereto by the Commandment of God. Luther, finding all his Exhortations ineffectual, published a Book wherein he invited all the World to take up Arms against those Fanatics, who thus abused the Word of God. He was obliged to...

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