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  • AGAPETAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGAPETA

    who in the ancient church associated themselves with ecclesiastics, out of a motive of piety and charity. In the primitive days, there were women instituted as deaconesses; who devoting themselves to the service of the church, took up their abode with...

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

  • ANTIENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIENT

    we mean the Greeks and Romans. Thus, the Ancients used to burn their Dead. The Learned have been greatly divided of late days, with regard to the Preference between the Ancients and Moderns. Ancient is sometimes opposed to young or new—we say the...

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

  • ABEYANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABEYANCE

    an obsolete Law-Term, whose precise Signification is not easily gather'd ; having been out of date as long ago as Littleton's Days. That Author gives it, as his Sense of the Word, that to be in Abeyance is to be in the Entendement, Remembrance, &...

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

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

    CHRONOLOGY, or the Doctrine of TIME ; measur'd by Year, Month, Week, Day, Hour. Age, Period, Cycle, &c. Commencing from Epocha, Creation, Hegira, &c. Laid down in Fasti, Almanack, Calendar, Julian, Gregorian, &c. Accommodated to Feasts, Feriæ, Easter,...

    • Type: Category

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Decretal, Senatus-consultum, Pragmatic Sanction, &c. Recorded, in institute, Code, Novel, Register, Pandect, Corpus, Domesday, &c. Kinds, Civil, Canon, Sumptuary, &c. Respecting, 1°, Persons, as the King; his Prerogative, Royalties, &c. viz. granting...

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

  • ABYSShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ABYSS

    Abyss. — The same Word is also used for that immense Cavern in the Earth where God collected all these Waters on the third Day; which in our Version is render'd the Sea; and elsewhere the Great Deep. Dr. Woodward has let some Light into this great...

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

  • ANGELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGEL

    take the Souls of such as die; and another Angel, named Israfil, stands with the Trumpet ready in his Mouth to proclaim the Day of Judgment. See QURAN, ISLAM, etc. The Heathen Philosophers and Poets, were also agreed as to the Existence of intelligent...

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

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    Sun, is part of a circle parallel to the equator, described by the Sun in his course between rising and setting. See Diurnal,Day, etc. His Nocturnal Arch is of the same kind; except that it is described between his setting and rising. See NIGHT RISING,...

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

  • ANCYLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANCYLE

    for that purpose. See SALII. They were carried every Year, in the Month of March, in procession around Rome; and the 30th Day of that Month, were again deposited in their Place. Ancyle, is also used in Anatomy, for the Contraction of the Ham. ANCYLE

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

  • 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

  • AZYMUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZYMUS

    be azymus, unleavened, in imitation of the paschal bread of the Jews, and of our Saviour, who instituted the sacrament on the day of the Passover; and the former strenuously maintaining the latter, from tradition, and the constant usage of the Church....

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

  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    was printed in 1631; where Vieta’s Method is brought into a still more commodious form, being that which obtains to this Day. In 1657, Des Cartes published his Geometry, wherein he made use of the Literal Calculus and the Algebraic Rules of Harriot; and...

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

  • ANAGRAMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGRAM

    express some Epoch: Of which kind is that Distich of Godart on the Birth of the late French King, in the Year 1638, on a Day wherein there was a Conjunction of the Eagle with the Lion’s Heart: eXorlens, DeLphIn aGVILe CorDIjUnVe LeonIs — CongrEss NV...

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

  • ANATOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/anatomy

    to be satisfied, whether or no it were lawful, in point of Conscience, to dissect a dead Carcass. We may add, that to this Day the use of Anatomy and Skeletons is forbidden in Muscovy; the first as inhuman, the latter as subservient to Witchcraft: And...

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

  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    and the Julian Law provides punishments for such husbands, as well as their wives. In most European countries, at this day, adultery is not a public crime; and none but the husband is suffered to intermeddle, excepting where the scandal is very...

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

  • ACRIDOPHAGIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ACRIDOPHAGI

    and St. Jerome in Libya.Though the Circumstances of these People be fabulous; yet may the Acridophagia be true; and to this Day they eat Locusts in some Parts of the East.—And hence, St. John the Baptist is said to have lived on Locusts, ἀκρίδες, and...

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

  • 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,...

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

  • ANDREWhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANDREW

    of St. Andrew, or the Thistle. See THISTLE. Andrew’s Cross, is a Badge worn in the Hat, by the People of Scotland, on the Day of the Feast of that Saint. It consists of blue and white Ribbons, disposed into a Cross, or Saltier; and is intended as a...

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

  • AUTUMNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTUMN

    year; being that wherein the harvest, and the fruits of the summer are gathered. See SEASON, YEAR, etc. Autumn begins on the day when the sun’s meridian distance from the zenith, being on the decrease, is a mean between the greatest and least; which...

    • 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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