Cyclopædia
Assuming day is required, the following 73 results were found.
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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
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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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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
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN
otherwise called Peripatetics: See ARISTOTELIAN and PERIPATETIC. The Aristotelians and their Dogmas prevail to this Day, in the Schools; malgré all the Efforts of the Cartesians, Newtonians, and other Corpuscularians. See SCHOOL, NEWTONIAN, CARTESIAN,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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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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
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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
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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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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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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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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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Rhetoric