Cyclopædia
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ALHANDALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/pharmacy/ALHANDAL
ALHANDAL, a Term in the Arabian Pharmacy.The Troches of Alhandal, Trochisci Alhandale, are a kind of Troches, composed of Colocynthis, Bdellium, and Gum Tragacanth. See TROCHE.They are esteemed good Purgatives, and are used on divers Occasions. See...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Pharmacy
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ABATEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABATEMENT
ABATEMENT, in Law, is us'd for the defeating or overthrowing of a thing, as a Writ, Appeal, or the like. Thus the Abatement of a Writ, is the frustrating, or setting it aside, by some Exception alledg'd and made good against it. Such Exception may be...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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AGNUS DEIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/AGNUS%20DEI
AGNUS DEI, a piece of consecrated paste, of great service in the Church of Rome.The name literally signifies Lamb of God; this being supposed an image or representation of the Lamb of God, etc. They cover it up with a piece of stuff, cut in form of a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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AGORONOMUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AGORONOMUS
AGORONOMUS, in Antiquity, a Magistrate of Athens, establish’d for the Maintenance of good Order, and Policy in the Markets; the Inspection of the Weights, Measures, &c. The Agoronomus was much the same with the Curule Aedile among the Romans. See EDICT....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ANTITACTAEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANTITACTAE
ANTITACTAE, or Antitactici, in Antiquity, a kind of Gnostics, who owned that God, the Creator of the Universe, was good and just; but asserted withal, that one of his Creatures had created Evil, and had engaged us to follow it, in order to set us in...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ALLEGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLEGATION
ALLEGATION, the Citation, or Quotation of an Authority, Book, Passage, &c. to make good any Point, or Assertion. See QUOTATION, CITATION, AUTHORITY, &c.
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AXINOMANCYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXINOMANCY
AXINOMANCY, axinomantia, a species of divination, or method of foretelling future events by means of an ax or hatchet. See DIVINATION. The word is formed from the Greek ἀξίνη, securis, and μαντεία, divinatio. This art was in good repute among the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANEMOSCOPEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANEMOSCOPE
ANEMOSCOPE, a Machine invented to foretell the Changes of the Wind. See WIND. It has been observed, that Hygroscopes made of Cat's-gut, &c., prove very good Anemoscopes; seldom failing, by the turning of the Index about, to foretell the shifting of the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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APOTHECARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOTHECARY
APOTHECARY, a Person who practices Pharmacy, or that part of Physics which consists in the Preparation and Composition of Medicines. See PHARMACY and MEDICINE. Nicholas Langius has written a large Volume expressly against the Apothecaries, their errors...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APHRONITREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APHRONITRE
APHRONITRE, Aphronitrum, a kind of Nitre, mentioned by the Ancients; supposed to be the Spume, or the lightest and subtilest Part thereof, emerging to the top. See NITRE. Some modern Naturalists rather take the ancient Aphronitre to have been a Native...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTIHECTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIHECTICS
ANTIHECTICS, Antihæctica, Remedies against Hectical Disorders. See HECTIC. Antihæcticum Poterii, in Pharmacy, a celebrated Chemical Preparation, made of equal quantities of Tin, and chalybeated Regulus of Antimony, by melting them in a large Crucible,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AMSDORFIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/AMSDORFIANS
AMSDORFIANS, in Church-History, a Sect of Protestants, in the XVIth Century; denominated from their Leader Amsdorf. Sanderus, Her. 186, represents them as maintaining, that good Works were not only unprofitable, but even opposite and pernicious to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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ARISTARCHUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTARCHUS
ARISTARCHUS,in its original Greek, signifies, good Prince; but in its ordinary Use among the Learned, is understood of a very severe Critic; there having been a Grammarian of that Name, who criticized on the Verses of the very best Poets. See CRITIC and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARMENIAN Bolehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMENIAN%20Bole
ARMENIAN Bole, Bolus Armenus, or Bole Armoniac, is a native Bole or Earth, brought from Armenia. See BOLE and EARTH. Some conjecture it to have a Mixture of Iron in its Composition—That which is palish, red, soft, fattish upon the Palate, and adhesive...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTHELMINTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHELMINTICS
ANTHELMINTICS, Medicines good to destroy Worms. The Word is compounded of ἀντί, contra, against, and ἕλμινς, Vermis, Worm. ANTHELMINTICS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABARTICULATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ABARTICULATION
ABARTICULATION, in Anatomy, is represented by Blanchard, and other Lexicographers after him, as synonymous with Diarthrosis : but the Definition they give of it, does not quadrate with that Notion. "Abarticulation, or Dearticulation," say they, "is a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Anatomy
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AUREA Alexandrinahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/pharmacy/AUREA%20Alexandrina
AUREA Alexandrina, in Pharmacy, a kind of Opiate or Antidote, in great Fame among the ancient Writers. See ANTIDOTE. It is called Aurea, from the Gold which enters its Composition; and Alexandrina, as having been first invented by a Physician named...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Pharmacy