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  • AMPUTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMPUTATION

    an Assistant for 12 or 14 Hours keeping fast the Dressing with his hand, to prevent any violent Hemorrhage.—In three or four Days the Dressing may be removed; and proper Digestives, mixed with Astringents, applied: having an actual Cautery, or some...

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

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

    Thing incommode him. He call'd accordingly, as soon as ho came near the Water ; and was instantly drawn out : yet he died 3 Days afterwards. The Insormation he brought them was, that he selt a Heat, which scorch'd up his Entrails. ADogbeingletdown,...

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

  • ALLEGORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLEGORY

    Religions. The Jews, we know, abound with them: Philo Judaeus has three Books, Of the Allegories in the History of the Six Days. See HEXAMERON. Nor are the Heathens without Allegories in their Religion: it may even be said, that the Use hereof is of a...

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

  • ALMANACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMANACK

    or Ephemeris, a Calendar or Table, wherein are set down the Days, and Feasts of the Year, the Course of the Moon, &c. See CALENDAR, YEAR, DAY, MONTH, MOON, &c. The Original of the Word is much controverted among Grammarians.—Some derive it from the...

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

  • ASCENSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSION

    for that miraculous Elevation of our Saviour, when he mounted to Heaven in the Sight of his Apostles. Hence also, Ascension Day, a Festival of the Church, held ten Days before Whitsuntide, in Memory of our Saviour’s Ascension. See FEAST. Ascension, in...

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

  • APOCALYPSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCALYPSE

    were the most and the longest divided. St. Jerome relates, that the Greek Church doubted of its Authenticness even in his Days: St. Basil and Gregory Nazianzen absolutely reject it; and the Council of Laodicea never mentions it in their Canon of the...

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

  • ARPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARPAGUS

    clauditur infansVel minor igne rogus. In later times it became the custom to burn such as had lived to the age of 90 days, and had cut any teeth; and these they called Rapti. The word Arpagus signifies the same thing in Greek. Eustathius assures us, it...

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • AILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AILE

    which lies where the grandfather, or great grandfather called Befaile, was seized of lands or tenements in fee-simple, on the day he died; and a stranger abates or enters the same day, and dispossesses the heir. The word is formed from the French Aieul,...

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A

    VIIth Century, affirms it expresly : Latini autem Ninnerof ad Litteras non computant. The Usage was really introduc'd in the Days of Barbarism. M. du Cange, explaining what that Usage was, at the beginning of each Letter of his Glossary, the generality...

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

  • ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT

    writing to Heliodorus, says expresly, Alia Monachorum est Causa, alia Clericorum. See CLERGY, PRIEST, &c. In those early Days, the Abbots were subject to the Bishops, and the ordinary Pastors. Their Monasteries being remote from Cities, built in the...

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

  • AGONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AGON

    or contention for the mastery, either in some exercises of the body, or the mind. There were of these agones, on certain days, in most of their feasts, and other ceremonies, in honor of gods or heroes. See FEAST and GAME.There were also agones...

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