Cyclopædia
Assuming five is required, the following 48 results were found.
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AQUEDUCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUEDUCT
Diameter. Blasius has observed, that in the space of twenty-four Hours, Rome received, from these Aqueducts, no less than five hundred thousand Hogsheads of Water: The Aqueduct built near Maintenon for carrying the River Eure to Versailles, is the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APERIENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APERIENTS
See OBSTRUCTION, CAPILLARY, GLAND, CIRCULATION, etc. Aperients, then, coincide with Deobstruents. See DEOBSTRUENT. The five lesser aperient, or opening Seeds, are Grass, Madder, Eryngo, Capers, and Cammock. The greater opening Seeds are Smallage,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARCUATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCUATION
be begun to lay about Michaelmas following; at which time, if the stools have been carefully managed, they will have shot five, six, or more main branches out of the root, and on every one of these,as many side or collateral branches. These main...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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