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  • ARMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/military-art/ARMY

    vassals and tenants of the lords. See VASSAL, TENANT, LORD, SERVICE, MILITIA, etc. When each company had served the number of days or months enjoined by their tenure, or the customs of the fees they held; they returned home. See TENURE, FEE, etc. The...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Military art

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    Doctrines and Inventions.—Such are, Lully’s Art, or the Transcendental Art, by means whereof a Man may dispute whole Days on any Topic in Nature, without understanding the least tittle of the Thing in Dispute; thus called from its Inventor Raimond...

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

  • ACETOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACETOUS

    those of the former, only more powerful. Acetum Rosarum, vinegar of roses; made of rosebuds infused in vinegar for 40 or 50 days; the roses then pressed out, and the vinegar preserved. It is chiefly used by way of embrocation on the head and temples, in...

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

  • APOSTLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTLE

    Year. Another Book of the like kind, containing the Gospels, is called Εὐαγγέλιον (Euangelion), Gospel. The Apostle, of late Days, has also contained the other canonical Epistles; the Acts of the Apostles, and the Revelations. Hence it is also called,...

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

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    many set on a footing with the Mineral Bezoar. Magistery of Antimony, is crude Antimony digested with aqua Regia eight or ten Days; to which, Water is then put, but poured off again e'er it settle: This to be repeated till there remain nothing behind...

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

  • ACCIDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCIDENT

    as whiteness is from a white body, and that it existed in the beginning without this subject, having been created four days before. The Cartesians, to a man, combat the notion of Absolute Accidents, it being their doctrine that the essence of matter...

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

  • ANGELICAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGELICA

    the Sign of a Cross and these Words, "In hoc signo vinces": But, that there was such a thing as any Military Order in these Days, is a mere Fable. See MILITARY ORDER. ANGELICA

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    Atlantis, maintains Astronomy to have been invented by the Swedes: His Reasons are, the great Diversity in the length of the Days in that Country, which must naturally lead the People to conclude the Earth round, and that they lived near one of its...

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

  • ARMONIACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARMONIACK

    of Clay and Brick, all but the Necks, which lie open to the Air; and put the Fire in the oven, which they keep up for three days and nights—the Phlegm of the Materials contained in the bottles, being thus exhaled by the Heat of the Fire, and the acid...

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

  • ATTACHMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTACHMENT

    is by three means; by goods and chattels; by body, pledges, and mainprize; or by body only.—This court is held every forty days throughout the year. ATTACHMENT of privilege, is, by virtue of a man’s privilege, to call another to that court whereto he...

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

  • ANTIQUATEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIQUATED

    to distinguish them from those of the Greeks and Romans. Antique Work. See ANTIQUE WORK. ANTIQUITY, Antiquitas, ancient Days; or the Times past long ago. See AGE, TIME, ANTIQUE, ANCIENT, etc. Thus we say, the Heroes of Antiquity, the Marks of Antiquity,...

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

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    concord among its members. See FEAST. The word is formed from the Greek 'agape', meaning affection or love. In the primitive days, they were held without scandal, or offence; but in later times, the heathens began to criticize them for impurity. This...

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

  • ABRACADABRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABRACADABRA

    particularly seven Angels who presided over the seven Heavens ; and to whom he attributed 365Virtues or Powers, the Number of Days in the Year, with other idle Reveries. This ABPAΕAΣ S. Jerom will have to be the same God whom the Persians and other...

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

  • ACONITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACONITE

    Aconite, and restored to its Vigour by that of Hellebore. Theophrastus relates, that they had a way of preparing it in those Days, so as it should only destroy at the End of one or two Years.—Arrows dipped in its Juice prove mortal wherever they...

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

  • ANIMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMATION

    that bears it is quick, as the common way of Expression is. See FETUS. The common Opinion is, that this happens about 40 days after Conception. But Ver, Florentinus, in a Latin Treatise entitled, "Homo Dubius, sive de Baptismo Abortivorum," shows this...

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

  • ARGENTUM ALBUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARGENTUM%20ALBUM

    ALBUM, mentioned in Domesday, signifies bullion, or silver uncoined. See BULLION. In those ancient days, such passed as money from one to another in payment—accepted as this metal weighed but not marked. Spelman. See SILVER and MONEY. ARGENTUM ALBUM

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

  • ABBEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBEY

    (we mean a Prior Conventual) are the same thing ; and only differ in Name. See PRIOR. Fauchet observes, that in the early Days of the French Monarchy, Dukes and Counts were call'd Abbots, and Duchies and Counties Abbies. Many Persons of the prime...

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

  • ARRAYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ARRAY

    the Men empaneled one by another. The Array shall be quashed, ib. By the Statute, every Array in Assize ought to be made four days before.—Hence also, to challenge the Array; see CHALLENGE. ARRAY

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

  • ASCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCH

    are the Inhabitants of the Torrid Zone; by reason the Sun is sometimes vertical to them. See Torrid and Zone. To find on what Days the People of any Parallel are Aschii. See GLOBE. The Word is formed of the privative Particle ἀ, and σκιά, Umbra, Shadow.

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

  • ATAXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATAXY

    Ataxia, a want of order or regularity—The term is chiefly used in medicine, where the order of the critical days, or other phenomena of a disease, is inverted. See CRITICAL. The physicians have frequent recourse to an Ataxy or irregularity of the...

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