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

    other things; that is, as he himself explains it, the Tribute they had been accustomed to send him. These Apostles were a degree below the Officers of the Synagogues called Patriarchs, and received their Commissions from them. Some Authors observe, that...

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

  • APOTOMEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOTOME

    has been taken from it. See TONE and SEMI-TONE. The Proportion, in numbers, of the Apotome is, of 2048 to 2187. See DEGREE. The Greeks thought that the greater Tone could not be divided into two equal Parts; for which reason they called the first part...

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

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

    See ARCHIMANDRITES. They were really distinguish'd from the Clergy, tho frequently consounded with 'em, because a Degree above Laymen. S. Jerom, writing to Heliodorus, says expresly, Alia Monachorum est Causa, alia Clericorum. See CLERGY, PRIEST, &c. In...

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

  • ANALOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALOGY

    three Kinds of Analogia, viz.—of Inequality, where the Reason of the common Denomination is the same in Nature, but not in Degree or Order: In which Sense, Animal is analogous to Man, and Brute. Of Attribution; where, though the Reason of the common...

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

  • ATHANORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHANOR

    large immovable Furnace, built of Brick or Stone, and covered with a tower-top; proper to maintain a temperate and equable degree of heat for a considerable time. See FURNACE, HEAT, etc. The Heat of the Athanor is intended or remitted by opening or...

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

  • ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE

    an Object may be seen being given; to find its Altitude.——Suppose the Distance DB, (Tab. Geography, Fig. 9.) turn this into Degrees; by which means, you will have the Quantity of the Angle C.From the Secant of this Angle subtract the whole Sine BC;the...

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

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

    See CINNABAR. There is also a Cinnabar of Antimony procured after the Butter of Antimony has done rising, by increasing the Degree of Fire. This sublimed a second time, makes a yet better Cinnabar. Crocus, or Liver of Antimony, is the same with what we...

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

  • AMETHYSThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/AMETHYST

    in Heraldry, signifies the purple Colour, in the Coat of a Nobleman; which in Gentlemen's Escutcheons below that degree, is called Purpure; and in those of sovereign Princes, Mercury. See PURPURE, and PURPURE. AMETHYST

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

  • AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION

    this respect by the Lex Voconia, and women were excluded from the privileges of Agnation, excepting such as were within the degree of consanguinity, e.g., excepting the sisters of him who died intestate. And it was hence that the difference between...

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

  • ASPERITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPERITY

    the blind Man so famous for distinguishing Colours by the Touch, it should appear that every Colour has its particular Degree and Kind of Asperity. He makes Black the roughest, as it is the darkest of Colours; but the others are not smoother in...

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

  • ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT

    in Matters of Literature, for a compendious View, or Epitome of a larger Work. See EPITOME. An Abstract is supposed to be a degree shorter, and more superficial than an Abridgment. See ABRIDGMENT. ABSTRAIT

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

  • ANCHYLOPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANCHYLOPS

    in Medicine, a Species, or rather Degree of Fistula Lachrymalis; frequently confounded with Agilops, &c. See FISTULA, and AGILOPS. ANCHYLOPS

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

  • ARÆOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARÆOMETER

    running mercury put into it, as will serve to balance or keep it swimming in an erect position. The stem is divided into degrees; (as represented in Tab. Miscellany, fig.18.) and by the depth of its descent into any liquor, its lightness is concluded;...

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    adjacent Bodies of the planetary System. Whence, according to the Angle the Planets make with that grand Luminary, and the Degree wherein they are enlightened, either by his direct or his oblique Rays; together with their Distance and Situation in...

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

  • ATTENTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTENTION

    and better prepared to catch even a feeble agitation of the air. Or it is the adjusting the tension of that membrane to the degree of loudness or lowness of the sound we are attentive to. See TYMPANUM. See also HEARING, etc. The word is compounded of...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    180°, or just half of that Meridian, distant from one another. See PARALLEL and MERIDIAN. The Antipodes have the same degree of Heat and Cold as well as the same length of Night, and Day; but at contrary times. It being Midnight with one when it is Noon...

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