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  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    have some proper for every purpose, according to the bulk, strength, delicacy, richness, or simplicity required. Hence arose five orders or manners of building, all invented by the ancients at different times, and on differentoccasions, viz. Tuscan,...

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

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

    in regard of Vowels, of which there are seven or eight kinds commonly used; tho the Latin Alphabet only takes notice of five; whereof two, viz. i and u, according to our English Pronunciation, are not properly Vowels, but Diphthongs.Add, that the...

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

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    the IVth Consulate of Tiberius, that is, to the VIIth of his Empire; which is eleven years before our Savior's Passion and five before Pilate was made Governor of Judea. See EUSEBIUS, LIX. c. 4. and 6. Rufinus. L. 1. c. 5, etc. The true and genuine Acts...

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

  • ARMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARM

    The Arm, in this latter Acceptation, has only one large Bone, called the Humerus, or Shoulder-Bone. See HUMERUS. It has five sorts of Motions, which are effected by five Pair of Muscles; upwards, by the Deltoides, Supraspinatus, and Coracobrachialis;...

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

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

    ignited after; and even emits a Smoke, which ascends upwards.—That a kindled Charcoal is totally extinguished in about five Minutes, though in open Air it remains alive half an Hour; and that it goes out by degrees, beginning from the Top and the...

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

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

    as simple ones, for more conveniency sake. All technical Apparatus, then, is to be here thrown by; and instead of giving five or six hard Words for one, the general Effect, and Meanings thereof are to be made use of. Thus, Calomel may be defined "a...

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

  • ACCESSORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSORY

    the Neck, and Shoulders. See NERVE, VAGUS, &c. In its Ascent towards the Head, it receives Branches from each of the first five Pair of Cervical Nerves, near their rise from the Medulla; and sends forth Twigs to the Muscles of the Larynx, Gula, etc. -...

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

  • ATTAINDERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINDER

    otherwise called Attainder by Default, or Attainder by Outlawry, is where a party flies, or does not appear after being five times publicly called in the county-court, and at last, upon his default, pronounced, or returned outlawed. See OUTLAWRY. Bill...

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

  • ARÆOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARÆOMETER

    N° 262. thus: A (fig. 19.) is a glass bottle or matrass, with so slender a neck, that a drop of water takes up in it about five or six lines, or ⅛ of an inch. Near that neck is a small capillary tube D, about six inches long, and parallel to the neck....

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

  • ASSISTANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSISTANT

    the Generals or Superiors of Monasteries, etc., to take care of the Affairs of the Community.—The General of the Jesuits has five Assistants, of consummate Experience, chosen by him out of all the Provinces of the Order, and denominated from the...

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

  • ADMIRALTYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMIRALTY

    Court of Admiralty, Commissioners of the ADMIRALTY, etc. See ADMIRAL, ADMIRAL'SCourt, etc.Among the Hollanders, the Five Admiralties are so many Chambers, composed of the Deputies of the Nobles, the Provinces, and the Towns; to whom belong the equipping...

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

  • AUGUSTINShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUGUSTINS

    Matters; the State of Innocence; fall of Nature by Sin, Grace, etc.—From these several Treatises were collected the five famous Propositions, enumerated under the Article JANSENISM. AUGUSTINS

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

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

    not agreed about the number of the judgeswho composed this august court. Some reckon thirty-one,others fifty-one, and others five hundred. In effect, theirnumber seems not to have been fixed, but was more or lessevery year. By an inscription quoted by...

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

  • ARMONIACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARMONIACK

    have divers ways of preparing a Sal-Ammoniac, in imitation of this—The common way is by putting one part of common Salt, to five of Urine; to which some add half that quantity of Soot: The whole being put in a vessel, they raise from it by sublimation a...

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    a Column of Air 27000 Foot high, on which footing the Height of the Atmosphere would only be 27000 Foot, or little more than five English Miles high. See TORRICELLIAN. But the Air, by its elastic Property, being liable to expand and contract; and it...

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

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    Creation, we see extraordinary Instances of long Abstinence.---— 'Tis the natural Course for divers Species to pass four, five, or six Months every Year without either eating or drinking : Accordingly, the Tortoise, Bear, Dormoule, Serpent, Swallow,...

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

  • AMPUTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMPUTATION

    etc. The Method of performing it, in the Instance of a Leg, is as follows—The proper Part for the Operation being four or five Inches below the Knee; the Skin and Flesh are first to be drawn very tight upwards, and secured from returning by a Ligature...

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

  • ASPERIFOLIÆhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPERIFOLIÆ

    stand alternately, or without any certain Order on the Stalks: The Flowers are monopetalous, but have the Margin cut into five Divisions, sometimes deep, sometimes Shallow; and the upper Spike or Top of the Plant, is often curved back, something like a...

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

  • ANSPESSADEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANSPESSADES

    in the French Foot, below the Corporals, and yet above the common Sentinels. See CORPORAL, etc. There are usually four or five in each Company. The Word is formed of the Italian ansa spezzata, q. d. broken Lance; which was occasioned hence, that they...

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

  • ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN

    enumerates his Books, to the Number of 400; of which scarce above 20 have survived to our Age: They may be reduced to five Heads; the first, relating to Poetry and Rhetoric; the second, to Logics; the third, to Ethics and Politics; the fourth, to...

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