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  • ACRIDOPHAGIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ACRIDOPHAGI

    L. III. c. 3:and 29; and Strabo, L. XVI.—Pliny also speaks of Acridophagi in Parthia; and St. Jerome in Libya.Though the Circumstances of these People be fabulous; yet may the Acridophagia be true; and to this Day they eat Locusts in some Parts of the...

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

  • AMPLIFICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/AMPLIFICATION

    Speech, wherein a Crime is aggravated, a Praise or Commendation heightened, or a Narration enlarged by an Enumeration of Circumstances; so as to excite the proper Passions in the Souls of the Auditors. See ORATORY, etc. Such is that Passage in Virgil,...

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

  • AURORA BOREALIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURORA%20BOREALIS

    that is, over almost all the north of Europe; and in all places at the same time, it exhibited the like wondrous circumstances. A sufficient number of observations have not yet been made by the curious, to enable them to assign the cause of this...

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

  • Phytologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/phytology

    &c. Bark, Quinquina, &c. Pislil, Farina, Stamina, &c. Operations thereof, as Vegetation, Germination, Circulation, &c. Circumstances, as Perpendicularity, Parallelism, Fertility, &c. Productions, as Honey, Wax, Balm, Sugar, Manna, &c. Cum, Restn,...

    • Type: Category

  • ALTERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ALTERATION

    Alteratio, in Physics, the Act of changing the Circumstances and Manner of a thing; its general Nature and Appearance remaining the same.—Or, Alteration is an accidental, and partial Change in a Body; without proceeding so far, as to make the Subject...

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

  • AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER

    to yield an acid Spirit, which precipitates into a Salt; is inferred, by some, to be of a mineral Nature; this being a Circumstance peculiar to that Kingdom, and never found in the Distillation of Vegetables: To which may be added, that Amber dissolves...

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

  • AMAZONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AMAZON

    Children, and cutting off the left Breasts of their Females, to make them more fit for the Combat. It is from this last Circumstance that they take their Name, viz. from the Privative a, and μαζός, Mamilla, Breast. It is a Point controverted even among...

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

  • AVERNIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVERNI

    that the sulphurous Effluvia hereof, not being of consistency to sustain the Birds, they fall by their own Weight. This Circumstance, joined with the great Depth of the Lake, occasioned them to take it for the Gate or Entrance of Hell; and accordingly...

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

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

    a particle joined to a verb, adjective, or participle, to explain their manner of acting or suffering; or to mark some circumstance or quality signified by them. See PARTICLE, VERB, etc. The word is formed from the preposition ad, and verbum; and...

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

  • AGNOMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGNOMEN

    among the Romans, was a kind of surname, usually given on occasion of some particular action, habit, or other circumstance of the bearer. See NAME, and SURNAME. Thus, one of the Scipios was named Africanus, and the other Asiaticus, from the brave...

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

  • ADMINICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ADMINICLE

    support.See AID, etc. In the civil jurisprudence, adminiculum signifies the beginning of a proof; an imperfect proof; a circumstance or conjecture, tending to form or fortify a proof. Among antiquaries, the term adminicules is applied to the attributes,...

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

  • ABDICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ABDICATION

    a Father was said to abdicate his disobedient Son. See ADOPTION. It disser 'd from Exheredation, Disinheriting, in this Circumstance, that the abdicated Son was banisti'd his Father's Family, and cut off from the Succession by a solemn Act, during the...

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