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  • ACATALEPSIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACATALEPSIA

    ACATALEPSIA, Acatalepsy, in Philosophy, Incomprehensibleness; or the Impossibility of comprehending or conceiving a thing. See COMPREHENSION. The Pyrrhonians and Sceptics, and even the Ancient Academy, asserted an absolute Acatalepsia: All human...

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

  • ART AND PARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART%20AND%20PART

    ART AND PART,is a Term used in the North of England, and in Scotland.—When any one is charged with a Crime, they say he is Art and Part in committing the same; that is, he was both a Contriver, and acted a Part in it. See Principal, Accessary, &c.

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

  • ANTEJURAMENTUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTEJURAMENTUM

    ANTEJURAMENTUM, an Oath which both the Accuser and Accused were obliged to make before any Trial or Purgation. The Accuser was to swear that he would prosecute the Criminal; and the Accused was to make Oath on the very Day that he was to undergo the...

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

  • ALLOYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce/ALLOY

    to give the Gold a due hardness, that it may not waste with wearing; and to increase its Weight, so as to countervail the Charges of Coinage. See SEIGNEURAGE. Gold that has more of this, than it ought to have; is said to be of a coarser or greater...

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

  • ANNUITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUITY

    Law, the Difference between a Rent and an Annuity consists in this, that Rent is payable out of Land; whereas an Annuity charges only the Person of the Grantor. See RENT, WRIT, ACTION, etc. Add, that annuities are never taken for Assets; as being no...

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

  • APOLLINARISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOLLINARISTS

    all. Apollinaris further taught, that the Souls of Men were propagated by other Souls, as well as their Bodies —Theodoret charges him with confounding the Persons of the Godhead; and with giving into the Errors of Sabellius: and Basil accuses him of...

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

  • AUGMENTATIONShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/AUGMENTATIONS

    in Heraldry, are additional charges frequently given as a particular mark of honour, and generally borne either on an escutcheon, or a canton.—Such are the arms of Ulster, borne by all the baronets of England. AUGMENTATIONS

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

  • Heraldryhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry

    HERALDRY, or the Confideration of COATS ; consisting of Field, Charge, Figure, &c. as Cross, Chevron, Bend, Palo, &c. with Abatement, Difference, Quartering, & c . Composed of Colour, Metals, Points, &c. Bore on Escutcheon, Shield, &c. Accompanied with...

    • Type: Category

  • Pyrotechnyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/pyrotechny

    PYROTECHNY, or Artificial FIREWORK ; including the Consideration and Use of Gun-pouder, Match, Fusee, &c. Of Ordnance, Cannon, Gun, Mortar, &c. Carriage, Charge, Projection, Range, Point-blank, Recoil, &c. Petard, Carcass, Shot, Bomb, Granado, &c....

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  • 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

  • DAMPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAMPS

    in Natural History,are noxious Steams,or Exhalations, frequently sound in close, subterraneous Places, particularly Mines, Pitts, Cellars, &c. For the Rationale of the Effects of Damps, See POISONS and MEPHITES. The Damps in Mines are of 4 Kinds : The...

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

  • ARCHONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARCHON

    ARCHON, in antiquity, a chief magistrate of Athens—After the Athenians had abolished monarchy, they created Archons, who were obliged to render an account of their administration. Some of these were annual, and others perpetual; Medon, the son of...

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

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

    AUDITOR, a hearer, or one who listens or attends to anything. See HEARING, ATTENTION, and AUDITORY. AUDITOR is also used for several officers, appointed to audit, or hear accounts, pleadings, etc. See ACCOUNT. Anciently the word AUDITOR was also used...

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

  • ALMONERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMONER

    ALMONER, anciently also wrote Armner, or Aumonier, an Officer in a King’s or Prince’s Household, whose business is to distribute Alms to the Poor. See ALMS.The Lord Almoner, or Lord High Almoner, is an Ecclesiastical Officer, who has the Forfeiture of...

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

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    ANIMALS are ordinarily divided into terrestrial, aquatic, volatile, amphibious, Insects, etc. Terrestrial Animals are either Quadrupeds or Reptiles. Quadrupeds have either the Feet cloven, as the Bullock; or entire, as the Horse; or divided into several...

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

  • ARCHAEUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHAEUS

    ARCHAEUS, an obscure term, used chiefly among the ancient chemists, to express I know not what principle of life and motion; the cause of all the effects which men observe in nature. See LIFE. Hence, as they differ in their ideas of a vital cause, the...

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

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

    or DEFTERDER, the Treasurer of the Revenues of the Turkish, and Persian Empire. See TREASURER.Meninski calls him Supremus Thesaurarius, High Treasurer; and Præfes Camera, President of the Exchequer; And Castellus makes him the Keeper, and Comptroller of...

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

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

    ASTROLOGY, Astrologia, the Art of foretelling future Events, from the Aspects, Positions, and Influences of the Heavenly Bodies. See ASPECT, INFLUENCE, etc. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἄστρον, Star, and λόγος, Discourse; whence, in the literal...

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

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

    ANABAPTISTS, a Religious Sect, whose distinguishing Tenet is, That Children are not to be baptized, till they arrive at Years of Discretion; as holding it requisite, that they give a Reason of their Faith, before they can receive a regular Baptism. See...

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

  • ALLODIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALLODIAL

    ALLODIAL, Allodran, in ancient Customs.——Allodra, or Allodran Land, is that whereof a Person has the absolute Property; or which he holds without paying any Service or Acknowledgment to any Superior Lord. See PROPERTY, etc. Such an Inheritance is...

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