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  • ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS

    according to some, came the Appellation Bellum.—Diodorus Siculus takes Belus to be the same with Mars, who first trained Soldiers up to Battle. Arms of Stone, &c. even of Brass, appear to have been used before they came to Iron and Steel. Josephus...

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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    etc. See FERMENTATION, PUTREFACTION, DISSOLUTION, etc. The Cartesians resolve all physical action into metaphysical: Bodies, according to them, do not act on one another; the action all comes immediately from the Deity. The motions of bodies, which seem...

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

  • ALMONERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMONER

    of such as have spent their Youth, and become superannuated in the King’s Service;or the Widows of such Household Servants as died poor, and were not able to provide for their Wives and Children, whom he duly pays. Under the Lord Almoner is a...

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

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

    part is the foulest. Antimony is supposed by many of the Chemists to contain the seminal Principles of all kinds of Bodies; and accordingly, the Character whereby it is denoted in their Writings is the same with the Character of the Earth; to denote...

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

  • AFFINITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFINITY

    all prohibited by the Law of Nature.—Thus, Levit. C. XVIII. ver. 16. a Man was forbid to marry his Brother’s Widow, unless he died without Issue; in which case, it became enjoined as a duty. So it was forbidden to marry his Wife’s Sister, while she was...

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    thereof. See HEAVEN. Astronomy is properly a mixed mathematical Science, whereby we become acquainted with the Celestial Bodies, their Magnitudes, Motions, Distances, Periods, Eclipses, etc. See MATHEMATICS. Some understand the Word Astronomy in a more...

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

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

    by Solon;but others carry it much higher, and assert it to have been established by Cecrops, about the time that Aaron died;viz. in the year of the world 2553, maintaining withal, that Solon only made some new regulations in it. In effect, Demosthenes...

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

  • ANEMOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANEMOMETER

    the Patient received on the Breast, which threw him into spitting of Blood, and soon after formed the Tumor, whereof he died. Upon Dissection, the Aneurism was found so big, that it filled the whole Cavity of the Thorax on the right Side. N° 265. The...

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

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

    kind of Locusts, which they salted, and kept for their standing Food all the Year: They lived to forty Years of Age, then died of a sort of winged Worms generated in their Bodies. See ST. Jerome against Jovinian, L. II. and on St. John, C. 4: Diodorus...

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

  • AMPLIFICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/AMPLIFICATION

    Passions in the Souls of the Auditors. See ORATORY, etc. Such is that Passage in Virgil, where, instead of saying that Turnus died, he amplifies his Death: "Ast illi solvuntur frigore membra, Vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras."...

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

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    Assize is in the County. See FRESH FORCES. Assize of Mort d'Ancestor, lies where my Father, Mother, Brother, Uncle, etc. dies seized of Lands, Tenements, Rents, &c. held in Fee-simple; and after their Death, a Stranger abates. See ABATEMENT.—It is good...

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

  • ABORTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABORTION

    is to be us'd;and if there be an habitual Laxity of the Uterine Vessels, Guaiacum. ABORTION is also used where the Child dies in the Womb ;tho it remain there many Years, or even as long as the Mother lives. AVORTEMENT

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

  • ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE

    Baron and Feme, seized of land in right of the Feme, make a joint lease or feoffment by deed, reserving rent, and the Baron dies and the Feme receives the rent, such receipt is deemed an acceptance and shall make the lease good, so that she shall be...

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

  • APPORTIONMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/APPORTIONMENT

    As, if a Man hath a Rent-Charge issuing out of Land, and his Father purchases a part of the Land charged in fee, and dies; and this Parcel descends to his Son, who hath the Rent-Charge: there the Charge shall be apportioned according to the Value of the...

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

  • AYELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AYEL

    in law, a writ which lies where the grandfather being seised in his demesne the day he died, a stranger enters the same day, and dispossesses the heir. See WRIT. AYEL

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

  • ARABICIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABICI

    were also a kind of heretics, who sprang up in Arabia, about the year 207; whose distinguishing tenet was that the soul died with the body, and also rose again with it. See RESURRECTION. Eusebius, lib. vi. c.38, relates that a council was called to stop...

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

  • ARPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARPAGUS

    in ancient inscriptions, signifies a child who died in the cradle. The Romans made no funerals for their Arpagi—They neither burnt their bodies, nor made tombs, monuments, or epitaphs for them; which occasioned Juvenal to say,—Terra clauditur infansVel...

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

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

    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 Agnate and Cognate first took its rise. But this difference was...

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

  • AB-INTESTATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AB-INTESTATE

    in Law, the Heir of a Person who died intestate, and yet had the Power of making a Testament. See INTESTATE, and HEIR. AB-INTESTAT

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

  • ADMINISTRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMINISTRATION

    in the exercise of justice. See WAR. ADMINISTRATION, in law, signifies the disposing of a man's goods, or estate, that died intestate, or without any will; with an intent to give an account thereof. See ADMINISTRATOR, INTESTATE, etc. Instruments or...

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