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  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    whereof the Power to be expressed does consist; as, a^3, a^4, a^5; the last of which signifies as much as a multiplied five times into itself; and so of the rest. See POWER, ROOT, EXPONENT, etc. For the Symbols, Characters, &c. used in Algebra, with...

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

  • ABDOMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ABDOMEN

    they are apt to sal),. and form those Tumors call'd Hernias. See PERITONÆUM, and HERNIA. It is cover'd and desended with five Pair of Muscles ; which not only defend the Viscera, but by their alternate Relaxations, and Contractions in Respiration,...

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

  • ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE

    Line of Chords. See CHORD. Suppose, e.g., the Altitude be required of a Tower AB, whose Top is visible at the Distance of five Miles: Then will DCB 20', from whose Secant 10000168, subtracting the whole Sine 10000000; the Remainder AB is 168, which will...

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

  • ALCAICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ALCAICKS

    of Alcaicks, consists of two Dactyls and two Trochees: As, Exilium impositura cymbae.There is another Kind, consisting of five Feet, of which the first is a Spondee or Iambic; the second an Iambic;the third a long Syllable; the fourth a Dactyl; the...

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

  • ACROSTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACROSTIC

    and proceeding upwards. Some refiners in this trifling way have even gone to Pentacrostics; where the name is to be repeated five times. See PENTACROSTIC. The name Acrostics is also applied by some authors to two ancient epigrams in the first book of...

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

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

    none are to be named ordinary Lords of Session, except those who have been Advocates, or principal Clerks of Session for five years, etc. In Doctors Commons, the advocates are usually called Proctors, or Procurators. See PROCTOR, and PROCURATOR. In...

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

  • ABLATIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ABLATIVE

    from which the Notion of Cases is borrow'd, the Ablative is only a sort of Supernumerary, or Supplement to the Cases. The five proper Cases not being sound sufficient to express all the Relations of Things to each other recourse was had to an expedient...

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

  • 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,...

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