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

    Device, Emblem, Rebus, Enigma, &c. And described by Blazon. 47 POETRY, including the Consideration of VERSE ; its Measure, Feet, Quantity, &c. as Hexameter, Alexandrine, Spondee, Iambic, &c. Rhyme, Stanza, &c. Compositions, as Epigram, Elegy. Song,...

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

  • TO THE KINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/to-the-king

    ; and others in recording the Glories of your Reign, in immortal Verse. THE Work I here presume to lay at Your Majesty's Feet, is an Attempt towards a Survey of the Republick of Learning, as it stands at the Beginning of Your Majesty's auspicious Reign....

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

  • ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT

    the Habit call'd Cuculla, Cowl ; putting the Pastoral Staff in his Hand, and the Shoes call'd Pedales, or Pedules, on his Feet. These Particularities we learn from the Ordo Romanus of Theodore Archbishop of Canterbury. The Title Abbot has also been...

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

  • ACREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACRE

    or the Latin Ager. Though Salmasius derives it from Acra, used for Agera, a Land-Measure among the Ancients, containing 10 Feet.The Kingdom of England contains by Computation 39,038,500 Acres: The United Provinces 4,382,000, &c. See POLITICAL...

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

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    breaking; though the Pressure upon them be equal to that of a Column of Mercury 30 Inches high, or a Column of Water of 32 Feet.—'Tis obvious, that no other Cause can preserve such Bodies unchanged, but the equitable Pressure on all Sides, which resists...

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

  • ALBhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALB

    ALBE, ALSA, anciently called Camisia, a Robe or Vestment of white Linen, hanging down to the Feet; wherein the Roman Priests perform divine Service. The Alb corresponds to the Surplice among us.—It takes its Name from its Colour, albus, white. ALB

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

  • ALLEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening/ALLEY

    Alley there must always be room enough for two Persons, at least, to walk abreast: So that it must never be less than five Feet in breadth; and there are some who hold that it ought never to have more than fifteen. Counter-Alleys, are the little Alleys...

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

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

    who reduced Poetry into an Art; marking the Measures and Quantities of the Verses, by the Latins called Pedes, and by us, Feet. —Add that the Share Hemming gives Rabbi Judah of Fez, in completing the Hebrew Accents, is chiefly founded on the common...

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

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

    themselves would have been palpable, and necessarily discovered long ago. Men lived tolerably well without knowing how many Feet a Louse had, or how many Years a Cannon Ball would be in travelling to the Sun. The Refrangibility of the Rays of Light in...

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

  • ÆGIPANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ÆGIPAN

    given to Pan, and the Pans. See PANS. The Word is compounded of aix, aigos, Goat; as being represented with the Horns, Legs, Feet, etc. of that Animal. The Ancients also gave the Name Aegipan to a sort of Monsters mentioned by Pliny, Solinus, and...

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

  • AEGIPANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEGIPAN

    given to Pan, and the Pans. See Pans. The Word is compounded of aix, aigos, Goat; as being represented with the Horns, Legs, Feet, etc. of that Animal. The Ancients also gave the Name Aegipan to a sort of Monsters mentioned by Pliny, Solinus, and...

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

  • ANAPESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ANAPEST

    to rule; this Verse being the Reverse of the Dactyl. See DACTYL. Anapestic Verses, i.e., Verses wholly composed of such Feet, were much in vogue among the Ancients. ANAPEST

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

  • ATTAINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTAINT

    or from an over-reach in frosty weather, when a horse being rough-shod, or having shoes with long calks, strikes his hinder feet against his fore-leg. The farriers distinguish upper attaints, given by the toe of the hind-foot upon the sinew of the...

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

  • ABLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ABLUTION

    perform'd by washing the Body, ere they enter'd on Sacrifice. See SACRIFICE. Sometimes they wash'd their Hands and Feet, sometimes the Head, and oftentimes the whole Body : For which purpose, at the Entrance into their Temples were plac'd Vessels made...

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

  • ARENATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARENATION

    among physicians, a kind of dry bathwhen the patient sits with his feet upon hot sand. SeeBath, Balneum. ARENATION

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

  • ACOUSTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOUSTICS

    can be made, to the Distance of a Furlong;and that he knows a way of hearing any Person speak through a Stone-Wall three Feet thick. See WHISPERINGPlace, and ECHO.Acoustic Nerve. See AUDITORY NERVE. ACOUSTICS

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

  • ACOUSTICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOUSTICKS

    can be made, to the Distance of a Furlong;and that he knows a way of hearing any Person speak through a Stone-Wall three Feet thick. See WHISPERINGPlace, and ECHO.Acoustic Nerve. See AUDITORY NERVE.

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