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  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    with great solemnity. At Cambridge, they call it Commencement. See COMMENCEMENT. Act of Faith, or Auto de Fe, is a solemn day held by the Inquisition for the punishment of heretics and the absolution of the innocent accused. See INQUISITION. They...

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

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    and Mirth on Earth." How consistent with the Nature of Things, that a Breath of Air should lay an early Hour of the Day down; and that from a green Gown thus given, a Passion of the Mind should in time be brought forth? In effect, the Inspiration of the...

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

  • AYELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AYEL

    in law, a writ which lies where the grandfather being seised in his demesne the day he died, a stranger enters the same day, and dispossesses the heir. See WRIT. AYEL

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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    etc. See FINGER, etc. By such a multitude of rules and observances, it is no wonder some of the orators of those, as of our days, were perverted more than profited.—Rules only tend to perfect the action, which must have its origin from another source,...

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

  • ADVENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ADVENT

    in pious preparation for the Adventus, or coming on, of the Feast of the Nativity. See NATIVITY, etc. Advent includes four Sundays or weeks; commencing either from the Sunday which falls on St. Andrew's Day, or that next after it. But, it is to be...

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

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    of the Comites, or Counts, and rendered Justice in their Place; held two Kinds of Courts, the one ordinary, held every Day, and called Placitum; the other extraordinary, called Assize, or Placitum Generale; at which the Count himself assisted for the...

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

  • ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN

    and what of positive Right. They have their Beneficiaries too, Chaplains, Almoners, and Canons, who read a Chapter every Day out of the Alcoran in the Mosques; and have Prebends for so doing.—The Hatib of the Mosque, is what we call the Parson of the...

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

  • ANNUALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUALIA

    yearly Oblations anciently made by the Relations of deceased Persons, on the Day of their Death; See OBLATION. This Day they called Year-day, etc., and on it, Mass was celebrated with great Solemnity. See ANNIVERSARY.

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

  • ASBESTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ASBESTOS

    that the Ancients used the Asbestos to make perpetual Wicks for sepulchral Lamps. However this be, there are some at this Day who use the Asbestos for the Wicks of such Lamps as they would not have any trouble withal; because the Amianthus never...

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

  • ANALEMMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALEMMA

    fitted to it. See ASTROLABE. Its use is for finding the Time of the Sun’s rising and setting, the Length of the longest Day in any Latitude, and the Hour of the Day. The Analemma is also of considerable use among Dialists, for laying down the Signs of...

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

  • ACOEMETEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOEMETES

    bodies, each of which officiated in their turn and relieved the others, so that their churches were never silent, night nor day. Nicetas Choniates mentions one Marcellus as the founder of the Acoemetes; whom some modern writers call Marcellus of Apamea....

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

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

    Astrology was in so much Vogue that the most inconsiderable thing was not to be done without consulting the Stars. And in the Days of King Henry III. and IV. of France, the Predictions of Astrologers were the common Theme of the Court Conversation. This...

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

  • ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE

    to be acquitted at their first presenting; or, in default of payment, to be protested. In bills drawn for a certain number of days after sight, the acceptance must be dated; in regard the time is to be accounted therefrom. The form of this acceptance is...

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

  • APOTHEOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/APOTHEOSIS

    Apotheoses, introduces poor Atlas, complaining that he was ready to sink under the Burden of so many Gods as were every day added to the Heavens. See HEAVEN. Seneca ridicules the Apotheosis of Claudius with admirable Humour. Herodian, in speaking of the...

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

  • ARTIFICIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTIFICIAL

    with factitious. See Factitious. Thus we have artificial Sal-Ammoniac, artificial &c. See AMMONIAC and BORAX. Artificial Day. See DAY. Artificial Globe, Sphere, &c. See GLOBE, SPHERE, &c. Artificial Horizon. See HORIZON. Artificial Eye. See EYE....

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

  • ANNIVERSARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIVERSARY

    is properly the yearly return of any remarkable day and was anciently called a Year-day or Mind-day, that is, a Memorial-day. See ANNUAL DAY, etc. On some extraordinary occasions, such days have been registered and annually observed in gratitude to...

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

  • ANNUNCIATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUNCIATION

    See INCARNATION. Annunciation is also the name of a Feast, celebrated annually on the 25th of March, popularly called Lady Day, in Commemoration of that wonderful Event. See FEAST. This Feast appears to be of great Antiquity in the Latin Church. Among...

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

  • ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI

    Anima Mundi, to have meant God, or the Spirit of God; and to have taken the Hint from Moses, who in his Account of the first Day’s Creation, says, "The Spirit of God moved on the Face of the Deep." See GOD, ABYSS, etc. The modern Platonists explain...

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

  • ASSENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSENT

    or complex it may be, there only goes one assent of the mind.—Thus, in the conditional proposition, "If the sun shines it is day"; there is only one assent of the mind, which regards the connection of the effect with the condition. So in the disjunctive...

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

  • ARCTURUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ARCTURUS

    BOÖTES. The word is formed of ἄρκτος, bear, and οὐρά, tail, i.e., bear's tail; as being very near it. It rises on the first day of September, and sets on the 13thday of May; and has been supposed rarely to appear without bringing some storm. See STAR....

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