Cyclopædia
Assuming error is required, the following 35 results were found.
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APOTHECARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOTHECARY
Medicines. See PHARMACY and MEDICINE. Nicholas Langius has written a large Volume expressly against the Apothecaries, their errors in pro quos in the Materia Medica, and suffering themselves to be so easily imposed on by foreign Merchants, Druggists,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APOLLINARISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOLLINARISTS
Souls, as well as their Bodies —Theodoret charges him with confounding the Persons of the Godhead; and with giving into the Errors of Sabellius: and Basil accuses him of abandoning the literal sense of Scripture, and taking up wholly with the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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Lawhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law
to Things; as Trespass, Nuisance, Deforcement, &c. Remedied by Writs of Quare Impedit, Darrein Presentment, Appeal, Atteint, Error, Right, Disceit, Superfedeas, Audita Querela, &c. Suit, or Course of Proceedings whereby Redress is procured; including,...
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
to Things; as Trespass, Nuisance, Deforcement, &c. Remedied by Writs of Quare Impedit, Darrein Presentment, Appeal, Atteint, Error, Right, Disceit, Superfedeas, Audita Querela, &c. Suit, or Course of Proceedings whereby Redress is procured; including,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ANOMALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ANOMALY
solved, according to Ward's Hypothesis, Sir Isaac affirms that even in the Orbit of Mars, there will scarce ever be an Error of above a Second. ANOMALY
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Astronomy
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ABELIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABELIANS
time without any use of Marriage ; and till the Time when he begot Seth : but to say that this was 130 Years is a manifest Error, and contrary to their own Chronologies, which place Seth's Birth in the 130th Year of the World, or of Adam's Life ; as may...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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ATTAINDERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINDER
base: Nor can this corruption of blood be saved but by an act of parliament, unless the judgment be reversed by a writ of error. See ATTAINTED. Our ancient laws make this difference between attainder and conviction, that a man was said to be convicted...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ABJURATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABJURATION
a solemn Renunciation, or Recantation of an Error, Heresy, or false Doctrine. See RECANTATION. The Word is form'd of the Latin Abjurare ; which in Cicero, and other Roman Writers, signifies the denying a thing upon Oath. Thus, Abjurare creditum, was to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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ASPIRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPIRATION
an θ and an Aspirate. See CONSONANT. Hence it evidently follows, that Aspirates are real Consonants; and that it must be an Error to rank ע,מ, ה א , of the Eastern Languages, among the Vowels; and to exclude the A in ours, out of the Number of Letters....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE
etc. There are two kinds of acceptances; the one solemn, the other tacit. The solemn acceptance is a formal act whereby some error or scandal which the Pope condemns is expressly condemned by the acceptor. Infinite disputes and schisms have been raised...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ARTIFICIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTIFICIAL
as a Thing very different from Nature; and artificial Things, from natural ones: Whence arises another more grievous Error, viz. that Art is a different Principle built upon Nature, and of such Power, as to be able, either to perfect what Nature had...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTIPHRASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPHRASIS
the contrary. See FIGURE and IRONY. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀντί and φράσις, of φράζω, I speak. 'Tis a common Error, to make Antiphrases consist in a single Word; as when we say that the Parsae are thus called by Antiphrasis, because they...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARABICIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABICI
was called to stop the progress of the rising sect; that Origen assisted at it and convinced them so thoroughly of their error, that they abjured it. ARABICI
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ADOPTIVIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ADOPTIVI
afterward propagated, towards the close of the 8th century. And both were convicted and condemned; and both abjured their error. ADOPTIVI
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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AURUM FULMINANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURUM%20FULMINANS
said to be principally downwards; in opposition to gunpowder, which is chiefly upwards; but this rather seems a vulgar error. See GUN-POWDER. A scruple of this powder acts more forcibly than half a pound of gunpowder: a single grain laid on the point of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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