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  • ADVOCATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADVOCATE

    ADVOCATE, Advocatus, among the Romans, a person skilled in their law, and who undertook the defense of causes at the bar. See LAW. The word is compounded of ad, and voco, i.e. I call to my aid, or defense. The Roman Advocates answered to one part of the...

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

  • ANALYTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALYTIC

    ANALYTIC, Analytical, something that belongs to, or partakes of the Nature of Analysis. See ANALYSIS. Thus, we say, an Analytical Demonstration; Analytical Enquiry; Analytical Table, or Scheme; Analytic Method, etc. See METHOD. The Analytic Method...

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

  • AUDITORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITORY

    AUDITORY, something belonging to the sense of hearing. See HEARING. AUDITORY, AUDIENCE, is also a collective name, denoting an assembly of persons, hearing, or attending to a person who speaks in public. See ASSEMBLY, ORATION, etc. AUDITORY is also used...

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

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

    AREOPAGUS, in Antiquity, a celebrated tribunal ofthe Athenians. Some imagine the Areopagus the proper name of acourt of justice, situated on a hill, in Athens; and that inthis court the senate of that illustrious city assembled. Others say that...

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

  • APOCALYPSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCALYPSE

    APOCALYPSE, Apocalypsis, q.d. Revelation; the Name of the last Book in the Canon of Scripture. See CANON and BIBLE. The Apocalypse contains Discoveries, or Revelations relating to many important Mysteries of Christian Faith; made to the Apostle St....

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

  • ALIENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALIEN

    ALIEN, in Law, a Person born out of the King’s Allegiance, and consequently not capable of inheriting Lands in England, till naturalized by Act of Parliament. See NATURALIZATION.Of these there are two Kinds, viz. Alien-Friends, who are of those...

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

  • ASSAYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSAY

    ASSAY, or Essay, or Say, in Coinage, etc. the Proof or Trial of the Goodness, Purity, Value, etc. of Gold, Silver, or other Metals. See GOLD, SILVER, METAL, etc. The Methods of Assaying, or making Assays, see under the Article ESSAY. Assay of Weights...

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

  • ATHLETAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHLETA

    ATHLETA, in Antiquity a Wrestler, or a strong courageous Person, who employs himself in Exercises of the Body, as running, Wrestling, and other the like Gymnic Sports, for which the Ancients had established Prizes. See EXERCISE and GYMNASTIC. See also...

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

  • AUDIENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDIENCE

    AUDIENCE. See HEARING, ATTENTION, and AUDITORY. The Word is form’d from the corrupt Latin, Audentia, of Audire, to hear. Audience is also used for the Ceremonies practiced in Courts, at the admission of Ambassadors, and public Ministers, to a hearing....

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

  • ANTHOLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHOLOGY

    ANTHOLOGY, Anthologia, a discourse or Treatise of Flowers; thus called from ἄνθος, Flos, a Flower, and λόγος, Logos, Discourse. Others choose rather to derive Anthology from ἄνθος, Flos, a Flower, and λέγω, Lego, I gather; and use it to signify a...

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

  • ARCHPRIESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHPRIEST

    ARCHPRIEST, Archipresbyter, a priest, established in some dioceses, with a pre-eminence over the rest. See PRIEST. Anciently, the archpriest was the first person after thebishop, and even acted as his vicar, in his absence, as toall spiritual concerns....

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

  • AUGUSTALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGUSTALIA

    AUGUSTALIA, in antiquity, a feast instituted in honor of the Emperor Augustus. See FEAST. This festival was first established after he had ended all his wars, and settled the affairs of Sicily, Greece, Asia, Syria, and the Parthians—The day whereon he...

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

  • AUGUSTALIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGUSTALIS

    AUGUSTALIS, in antiquity, a name given by the Romans 1°. to those who led the first ranks of an army; 2°. to certain magistrates in cities; 3°. to all the officers of the Emperor’s palace. The governor or prefect of Egypt is particularly called...

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

  • ALBIGENSEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ALBIGENSES

    ALBIGENSES, a Sect or Party of Reformers about Toulouse, and the Albigenses, in Languedoc; who, in the XIIth Century, became remarkable for their opposition to the Discipline and Ceremonies of the Church of Rome. See REFORMATION. They were also known by...

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

  • AMPHIPOLIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AMPHIPOLIS

    AMPHIPOLIS, in Antiquity, Archons, or chief Magistrates of the City of Syracuse. See ARCHON. They were first established by Timoleon, after his Expulsion of Dionysius the Tyrant. They governed Syracuse for the Space of 300 Years; and Diodorus Siculus...

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

  • ARRHEPHORIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARRHEPHORIA

    ARRHEPHORIA, a Feast among the Athenians,instituted in Honour of Athena.—Boys, or, as some say, Girls, between 7 and 12 Years of Age, were the Ministers that assisted at this Feast. See FEAST. The Word is derived from the Greek Ἀρρηφορία, which is...

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

  • ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET

    ALPHABET, the several Letters of a Language, disposed in their natural or accustomed Order. See LETTER, and LANGUAGE.The Word is formed from the Names of the two first Letters of the Greek Alphabet, Alpha, Beta; which were borrowed from those of the...

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

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    ATTRACTION, Attractio, or Tractio, in Mechanics, the Act of a moving Power, whereby a Moveable is brought nearer to the Mover. See POWER and MOTION. As Action and Re-action are always equal, and contrary; it follows, that in all Attraction, the Mover is...

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

  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    ANABAPTISTS, a Religious Sect, whose distinguishing Tenet is, That Children are not to be baptized, till they arrive at Years of Discretion; as holding it requisite, that they give a Reason of their Faith, before they can receive a regular Baptism. See...

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