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

    gathering Flowers in the Fields. Yet Festus does not ascribe the Feast to Proserpina; but says it was thus called, by reason Ears of Corn were carried on this Day to the Temples. Anthesphoria seems to be the same thing with the Floralia of the Latins....

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

  • ARVALES FRATREShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARVALES%20FRATRES

    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 instituted...

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

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

    Urine, Milk, Sweat, Marrow, &c. Membranes ; Pannicle, Cutis, Cuticula, Papilla, &c. Venters, Head, Meninges, Brain, &c. Eye, Ear, Pupil, Tympanum. Tongue, Teeth, Palate, Larynx, Glottis, Oesophagus, &c. Viscera, Stomach, Lungs, Heart, &c. Liver, Spleen,...

    • Type: Category

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    Performance to which a Man's whole Life scarce seems equal. The bare Vocabulary of the Academy della Crusca was above forty Years in compiling, and the Dictionary of the French Academy much longer ; and yet the present Work is as much more extensive...

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

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

    that of Springs, Rivers, Acida, &c. of Lake, Sea, Ocean, &c. of Tides, Deluge, and the like. 3 MINEROLOGY, or the History of EARTH; 1°, Its Parts, as Mountain, Mine, Moss, Bog, Grotto ; and their Phænomena, as Earth, quake, Volcano, Conflagration, &c....

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

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

    may give offense with the softest and most soothing words imaginable, by a proper management of the accent and manner of rehearsing them. The accent frequently gives a contrary sense to what the words themselves naturally imported. See WORD, FIGURE,...

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

  • DEFORMITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/ethics/DEFORMITY

    the Absence of Beauty, or a Deficiency in the Beauty expected in any Species: Thus bad Music pleases Rusticks, who never heard any better; and the finest Ear is not offended with tuning of Instruments, if it be not too tedious, where no Harmony is...

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

  • ASPIRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPIRATION

    as Harangue, Hook, Holland, Hero, etc. whereas the like Syllables are sounded much softer and easier without the H, as in Ear, Eat, etc. See H. The Aspirate, by the Greeks called Spiritus, and marked over their Vowels, seems to be very different from...

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

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

    a due application of the ear, or the mind, to anything said, or done. Attention of mind is not properly an act of understanding, but rather of the will, by which it calls the understanding from the consideration of other objects, and directs it to the...

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