Cyclopædia
Assuming die is required, the following 54 results were found.
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DIEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DIES
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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FESTI Dieshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/FESTI-Dies
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ASSETShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSETS
descended or come to his hands to discharge that which is in demand. Assets are of two sorts, real and personal— Where a man dies seized of lands in fee-simple, the lands which descend to his heir, are assets real. See REAL. Where he dies possessed of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
this would sometimes prove inconvenient for the Reader; who to find some particular Matter must go a long Circuit, and be bandied from one part of the Book to another : To say nothing of the Interruptions which may frequently happen in the Series of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY
Astrologia, the Art of foretelling future Events, from the Aspects, Positions, and Influences of the Heavenly Bodies. See ASPECT, INFLUENCE, etc. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἄστρον, Star, and λόγος, Discourse; whence, in the literal sense of the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ABACUS
a Column ; serving as a kind of Crowning, both to the Capital and the whole Column. See COLUMN. Dr. Harris, and the rest of die Dictionary-Writers, make the Abacus to be the Capital it self ; which is altogether as just, as to make the Crown of the Head...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Architecture
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SINE-DIEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SINE-DIE
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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DAMPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAMPS
they have done it, they purisy the Place well with Fire : And they will have it, that it gathers from the Steam of their Bodies, and Candles, ascends up into the highest Part of the Vault, and there condenseth, and in Time has a Film grown over it, and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANATOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/anatomy
the Art of dissecting, or artificially taking to pieces, the solid Parts of Animal Bodies; in order to an exact Discovery of their Structure and Economy. See ANIMAL, BODY, DISSECTION, and ECONOMY. Anatomy makes a great Branch of that Division of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Anatomy
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ANNUNCIATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUNCIATION
Event. See FEAST. This Feast appears to be of great Antiquity in the Latin Church. Among the Sermons of St. Augustine, who died in 430, we have two on the Annunciation, viz. the 17th and 18th de Sanctis; And yet there are much earlier Testimonies of its...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANNIVERSARY Dayshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIVERSARY%20Days
Days, Dies Anniversarii, among our Ancestors were those Days wherein the Martyrdoms of the Saints were yearly celebrated in the Church; as also Days whereon, at every Year’s end, Men were wont to pray for the Souls of their deceased Friends....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
&c. taking Distances, with Chain, Perambulator, &c. Plotting into Draught, Map, &c. with Protractor, &c. 3°, Solids or Bodies, as Cube, Parallelepiped, Prism, Pyramid, Cylinder, Polyhedron, &c. Their Surface, Solidity, &c. Operations relating hereto, as...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ATHANATIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHANATI
an Order of Soldiers among the ancient Persians. The Word is originally Greek, and signifies immortal, being compounded of the privative α, and θνῆσκω, to die. The Athanati were a Body of Cavalry, consisting of ten thousand Men, always complete,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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Trades & manufactureshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/trades-and-manufactures
TRADES and MANUFACTURES; as Printing, Papermaking, Book-binding, &c. Gilding, Japanning, Glass-making, Grinding. &c. Plumbery, Glaziery, Forging, Hammering, &c. Weaving, Bleaching, Whitening, &c. Fulling, Dying, Pressing, Sheering. Calendring, Tabying,...
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ALLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUM
inwardly, and rarely without some smooth Aromatic, as a Corrector.—It is used outwardly in astringent Lotions, and is an Ingredient in several Dentifrices. It is a principal Ingredient in Dying and Colouring; neither of which can be well performed...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AGARIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/pharmacy/AGARIC
AGARIC, or Fauagus Agaricus, in pharmacy, a kind of fungous excrescence growing on the trunks, and large branches of several trees; but chiefly on the larch-tree, and certain oaks. See FUNGUS. Dioscorides derives its name from a province of Sarmatia,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Pharmacy
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ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE
Tasso, Il Petrarcha.—Even the French join the Article to the proper Names of Kingdoms, Provinces, &c. as la Suede, la Normandie.— And we ourselves do it to the Names of certain Mountains and Rivers; as the Rhine; the Danube, the Alps, &c. Indefinite...
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ARVALES FRATREShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARVALES%20FRATRES
ARVALES FRATRES,were Priests in ancient Rome, who assisted in the Sacrifices of the Ambarvalia offered every Year to Ceres and Bacchus for the Prosperity of the Fruits of the Earth, viz. of the Corn and Wine. See PRIEST and AMBARVALIA, &c. They were...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AILE
where the grandfather, or great grandfather called Befaile, was seized of lands or tenements in fee-simple, on the day he died; and a stranger abates or enters the same day, and dispossesses the heir. The word is formed from the French Aieul, Avis,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
may be reduced to two Kinds, viz. 1°, The Matter of Light, or Fire, which is continually flowing into it from the heavenly Bodies. See FIRE. To which, probably, may be added the Magnetical Effluvia of the Earth. See MAGNETISM. 2°, Those numberless...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics