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  • ABSTERGENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSTERGENTS

    call'd among Physicians Detergents. See DETERGENT. Abstergents are of the Genus of Balsamicks ; and only differ in their degree of Subtilty and Efficacy, from Vulneraries. See BALSAMICK, and VULNERARY. The principal Simples in the Class of Detergents,...

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

  • ARMENIAN-Stonehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARMENIAN-Stone

    Semi-Metals; and supposes it composed of a Metal and Earth—See METAL.—he adds, that it only differs from the Lazuli in degree of Maturity, and that both of them seem to contain Arsenic. See ARSENIC. It is found in Tyrol, Hungary, and Transylvania; and...

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

  • ASCENDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENDENT

    in Astrology, the Horoscope: or the Degree of the Equator intersecting the Horizon at the Time of the Birth of anyone. See HOROSCOPE. This is supposed to have an Influence on his Life and Fortune, by giving him a Bent and propensity to one thing more...

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

  • ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST

    it Suavum & felicissimum omnium salium, the principal and most successful among Salts, which having obtained the highest degree of Simplicity, Purity, and Subtility, alone enjoys the Faculty of remaining unchanged and unimpaired by the Subjects it works...

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    themselves to it with success, under the encouragement of H. Caste: His son Robertsucceeded him in this design; till by degrees the modern architecture was run into as great an excess of delicacy, as the Gothic had before done into massiveness. Tothese...

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

  • ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS

    Activity of one Quality, by the Opposition of another."Thus Cold, say the School-Philosophers, on many Occasions exalts the Degree of Heat; and Dryness that of Moisture. See COLD, etc. Thus it is that Quick-Lime is set on fire by the Affusion of cold...

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

  • AURORA BOREALIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURORA%20BOREALIS

    matter, by becoming some way or other more dense, or having its velocity increased, may be capable of producing a small degree of light, after the manner of effluvia from electric bodies, which by a strong and quick friction, emit light in the dark: To...

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

  • ASCENSIONAL DIFFERENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSIONAL%20DIFFERENCE

    which is the ascensional Difference required; and being re- duced into Time, by allowing four Minutes of an Hour for every Degree, it will be 44’. 29”. See TIME. If the Sun be in any of the northern Signs, and the ascensional Difference, as D O, be...

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

  • ARSENIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARSENIC

    Arsenicum, in natural history, a ponderous mineral substance, extremely caustic or corrosive, to the degree of a violent poison. See FOSSIL, CORROSIVE, etc. The word is compounded of the Greek ἀρσεν, man, and νικᾶ, I overcome, kill; alluding to its...

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

  • ACERBhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACERB

    ACERB, Acerbus, a compound taste consisting of sour, with the addition of a degree of roughness. See TASTE. Such is the taste of all fruits before they are ripe. See FRUIT, MATURITY, etc. The physicians usually make Acerb an intermediate savour between...

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

  • ACHORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ACHOR

    ACHOR, Achores, in Medicine, the third Species or Degree of a tinea, or Scald Head. See TINEA. Achores are a sort of Spreading Ulcers, which break the Skin into a Number of little Holes, out of which oozes a viscid Humour. — Achores only differ from...

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

  • AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER

    gleets, etc. Oil of Amber, is a fine, transparent, ponderous, yellow oil; procured after the spirit, by increasing the degree of fire.—This, by rectification, becomes a good antihysteric, and emmenagogue; being very subtle and penetrative. Volatile Salt...

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

  • ARMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARM

    the Convexity of the Stone. This also is to be filed away, till the Effect is found the greatest.—It is surprising to what Degree the Armour of a Lodestone will augment its Effect: A good Stone thus armed, will lift above 150 times more than before. See...

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

  • AULIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AULIC

    called from the Latin, Aula, a Hall; it being in the Hall of the University that this Act is usually held. See UNIVERSITY, DEGREE, DOCTOR, etc. The Person who presides at the Disputation is the same, that is, to take the Doctor’s Cap. Aulic, Aulicus, is...

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

  • AZUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZURE

    skies. See BLUE, COLOR, SKY, etc. Azure, in heraldry, signifies a blue color, in the coats of arms of all persons under the degree of a baron. See COLOR. In the escutcheons of noblemen, blue is called Saphir; and in those of sovereign princes, Jupiter....

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

  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    have been adopted and transferred thence into the Hebrew by the Massoretes: He adds that they were first brought to their degree of Perfection by Rabbi Judah Sen David Chi log, a Native of Fez, in the XIth Century.— 'Tis indeed possible, the Jews might...

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

  • ADAGIOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/phonics/ADAGIO

    ADAGIO, in Music, one of the words used by the Italians to denote a degree or distinction of time. See TIME. The Adagio expresses a slow time; the slowest of any, except Grave. See ALLEGRO. The Triple 3 is ordinarily Adagio. See TRIPLE. ADAGIO

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Phonics - Music

  • ANNUALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUAL

    Equation of the mean Motion of the Sun depends on the Eccentricity of the Earth’s Orbit; and is greatest when it is 1 Degree 11’. The greatest annual Equation of the Moon’s mean Motion is 11’, 40”. of its Apogee 2° 4’, and of its Node 9’, 30”. See NODE,...

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

  • AZONEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZONES

    by every nation. See GOD. The word is derived from the Greek privative α and ζώνη, zone, country. These Azones were a degree above the visible and sensible gods, which were called Zone; who inhabited some particular part of the world, and never stirred...

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

  • ACIDULEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ACIDULE

    ACIDULE, in Natural History, a species of mineral waters which discover a degree of acidity to the taste. See WATER. Acidules are native waters impregnated with particles of some acid mineral, such as Vitriol, Alum, Nitre, or Salt. See WATER. Sometimes...

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