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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ADVERSARIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVERSARIA

    among the ancients, was used for a book of accounts, like our journal or day-book; thus called, quod adversa parte etiam scriptis impleretur, because wrote even on the backside. Hence, adversaria is sometimes also used among us for a common-place-book....

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

  • ANNOTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNOTATION

    a succinct Commentary, or Remark on any Book, or Writing; in order to clear up some Passage, or to draw some Induction or Consequence from it. See COMMENTARY, etc. The Critics of the last Age have made learned Annotations on the Scriptures; the...

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

  • ANTHOLOGIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ANTHOLOGION

    Anthologion, a Church Book in use among the Greeks. See GREEK. The Anthologion is a sort of Breviary or Mass-Book, containing the daily Offices addressed to our Saviour, the Virgin, and the principal Saints; with other Common Offices of Prophets,...

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

  • ANIMADVERSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMADVERSION

    sometimes signifies Correction;sometimes Remarks, or Observations made on a Book, etc.,and sometimes, a serious Consideration and Reflection on any Subject, by way of Criticism. The Word is formed of the Latin animadvertere, to animadvert: of animus,...

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