Cyclopædia
Assuming day is required, the following 112 results were found.
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ADDICTIOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADDICTIO
were called Servi Additi. Appretio in Diem denoted the adjudging of a thing to a person for a certain price, unless by such a day the owner or some other person gave more for it. The word is also used for taking an administration and paying the debts of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ATTACHINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTACHING
person, to be disposed of forthwith, whereas he that attaches keeps the party attached, and presents him in court at the day assigned in the attachment. There is this further difference, that an arrest lies only upon the body of a man; and an attachment...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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AUGUSTALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGUSTALIA
established after he had ended all his wars, and settled the affairs of Sicily, Greece, Asia, Syria, and the Parthians—The day whereon he made his entry into Rome, was appointed to be kept as a feast; and was called Augustalis. See AUGUSTALIS....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ASSUMPTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSUMPTION
that the Holy Virgin was assumed, or taken into Heaven, Body and Soul. ASSUMPTION was also among our Ancestors, used for the Day of the Death of any Saint: Quia ejus anima in Coelum assumitur. ASSUMPTION, in Logic, is the Minor, or second Proposition;...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AMPHIDROMIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AMPHIDROMIA
in Antiquity, a Feast celebrated on the fifth Day after the Birth of a Child. See FEAST. AMPHIDROMIA
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ANTHESPHORIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANTHESPHORIA
Yet Festus does not ascribe the Feast to Proserpina; but says it was thus called, by reason Ears of Corn were carried on this Day to the Temples. Anthesphoria seems to be the same thing with the Floralia of the Latins. ANTHESPHORIA
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ANACALYTERIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANACALYTERIA
in Antiquity, Feasts celebrated among the Heathens, on the Day that the Bride was permitted to lay aside her Veil, and to be seen in public. See FEAST, MARRIAGE, etc. They were thus called from the Greek ἀνακαλύπτερα (anakalypteria), to discover,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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AUGMENTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUGMENTATION
under Queen Mary, by the parliament held the first year of her reign; but the office of augmentation remains to this day. The court took its name hence, that the revenues of the crown were thought to be much augmented by the suppression of the said...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ASH WEDNESDAYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASH%20WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY,the first Day of Lent; so called from a Custom of the ancient Church, of Fasting in Sackcloth, with Ashes on their Heads, in Token of Humiliation. See LENT.
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AUDITA QUERELAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITA%20QUERELA
bench, willing them to grant summons to the sheriff of the county where the creditor is, for his appearance at a certain day before them. AUDITA QUERELA
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANTEJURAMENTUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTEJURAMENTUM
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 Ordeal, etc., that he was innocent of the Fact of which he was charged. If the Accuser failed, the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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DECADAL ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DECADAL%20ARITHMETIC
were made use of in Computations before Arithmetic was brought into an Art. The Eastern Missionaries assure us, that to this Day the Indians are very expert at computing on their Fingers, without any Use of Pen and Ink, Lat. Edif. & Cur.—Add, that the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified