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  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    ART, Ars, is defined by the Schoolmen, a habit of the mind operative or effective according to right reason; or, somewhat more intelligibly, a habit of the mind prescribing rules for the due production of certain effects; or the introducing of changes...

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

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    AGE, the natural duration of anything; and particularly of the life of man. See DURATION, and LIFE. The ordinary age of mankind has been occasionally varied, in such manner as to afford a fine instance of the wisdom of Providence. See the article...

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

  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    ADULTERY, Adulterium, in our ancient law-books called Advowtry, a crime committed by married persons, against the faith pledged to each other in marriage; by having carnal commerce with someone else: or even by a person not married; by having to do with...

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

  • ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST

    ALKACHEST, or Alcahest, in Chemistry, a universal Menstruum or Dissolvent, wherewith some Chemists have pretended to resolve all Bodies into their first Matter. See MENSTRUUM, DISSOLVENT, MATTER, &c. Those two eminent Adepts, Paracelsus and Helmont,...

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

  • ADUSThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADUST

    ADUST, Adustus, is applied, among Physicians, etc. to such Humours, as by long Heat become of a hot and fiery Nature. See HUMOUR. Such is Choler seen to be.—Melancholy is usually considered as black and adust Bile. See CHOLER, MELANCHOLY, etc. Adust...

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

  • ASSETShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSETS

    ASSETS, in Law,effects sufficient to discharge the burden laid on an executor, or heir, for satisfying the testator’s debts or legacies. See EXECUTOR, HEIR, TESTAMENT, LEGACY, etc. The word is formed of the French assez, enough; in regard whoever...

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

  • ALCOHOLhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALCOHOL

    ALCOHOL, or rather Alkool, in Chemistry, an Arabic Term, chiefly understood of the purest Spirit of Wine, raised or rectified by repeated Distillations to its utmost Subtility, and Perfection; so that if Fire be set thereto, it burns wholly away,...

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

  • APPROVEMENTUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROVEMENTUM

    APPROVEMENTUM, Approvementum, or Approvement, is sometimes used in ancient Writers for Improvement. See IMPROVEMENT. Thus, to Approve, approbare, is to make the best benefit of a thing by increasing the Rent, etc. In some ancient Statutes, Bailiffs of...

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

  • ALEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALE

    against the gout; Cerevisia Cephalica, for the head; Cerevisia Epileptica, &c. Gill Ale, is prepared by infusing the dry leaves of Hedera Terrestris, i.e., Ground-Ivy, in malt-liquor; which thereby becomes impregnated with the virtues of the simple; and...

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

  • ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ABACUS

    passing by, took the Hint, and immediately executed a Capital on this Plan 5 representing the Brick by the Abacus, the Leaves by the Volutes, and the Balket by the Vase, or Body of the Capital. Such was the Rise of the first regular Order. See ORDER,...

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

  • ANANAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANANAS

    like the Fig-tree, and of the Size of an Artichoke. The Fruit is adorned on the Top with a little Crown, and a bunch of red Leaves resembling Fire. The Flesh is fibrous, but dissolves in the Mouth; having the delicious Taste of the Peach, the Quince,...

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

  • ARTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ARTERY

    the rest of the Body, as far as the remotest Stages of Circulation. See CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD. The Great Artery,after it leaves the Heart, divides into two large Trunks, called the ascending, or upper; and descending, or lower, Trunks. See AORTA. The...

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

  • ANGLINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLING

    despicable: this Colour is given artificially, by steeping the Hair in a Liquor made of Alum, Soot, and the Juice of Walnut Leaves boiled together. Angling Hook. See FISHING HOOK. Angling Fly. See FISHING FLY. ANGLING

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

  • ANGELICAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGELICA

    the chief Intention wherein it is now prescribed among us, is, as a Carminative. Its Root is in the most esteem; though the Leaves are also used. Angelica-Water, is one of the compound Waters of the Shops; thus called from the Angelica Roots; which are...

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

  • ASPIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPIC

    of Aspic, vulgarly called Oil of Spike,is an inflammable Oil drawn from the Leaves and Flowers of a Plant frequent in the Southern Parts of France, resembling Lavender, and by the Botanists called Lavandula Mas. See ORN. It is much used by Painters and...

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

  • ERAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ERA

    obscure. Feuvrier says, that in Cicero and Lucilius, the Word Era is plural, and signifies the same thing with Commentaria, Leaves of a Book of Accounts, or a Merchant's Journal. Others, according to the same Author, are of opinion that Era was used...

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

  • ACORUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACORUS

    Species of Acorus; the Verus, or true, and the false—They are distinguished by this, that from the middle of some of the Leaves of the former, there arises a longish Cluster of an Infinity of little Flowers, the Thickness of the little Finger, and...

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

  • ÆRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ÆRA

    obscure. Feuvrier says, that in Cicero and Lucilius, the Word Era is plural, and signifies the same thing with Commentaria, Leaves of a Book of Accounts, or a Merchant's Journal. Others, according to the same Author, are of opinion that Era was used...

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

  • APOZEMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/APOZEM

    See DECOCTION. Apozems are a Class of liquid Medicines, composed of Decoctions of diverse Plants, Roots, Flowers, Leaves, Fruits, and Seeds, sweetened and clarified. It differs from Syrup, in Thickness and Consistence; the Syrup being more dense and...

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

  • ATTIREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/phytology/ATTIRE

    outer part of the suit is the Floret, whose body is divided at the top, like a cowslip flower, into five parts or distinct leaves. See THRUM, etc. Attire, in hunting, the head or horns of a deer. See HEAD. The Attire of a stag, if perfect, consists of...

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