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  • ACIDITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACIDITY

    that Sensation of Sharpness and Acrimony which Acids excite upon the Taste.See ACM, QUALITY, TASTE, etc. A little Vitriol leaves an agreeable Acidity in Water.Vinegar and Verjuice have different sorts of Acidity. The predominance of acidities in the...

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

  • ANODYNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ANODYNE

    are applied externally, to the part affected. Such among the Class of Simples are the Onion, Lily, Root of Mallows, Leaves of Violet, Elder, etc. The Word is derived from the privative Particle α and ὀδύνη, odune, to be in pain. We have also certain...

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

  • APETALOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/phytology/APETALOUS

    in Botany, something without Petals or Leaves. See PETAL and LEAF. The Word comes from the privative Particle α, and πέταλον, Folium, a Leaf. See FLOWER, PLANT, etc. APETALOUS

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

  • ALABASTRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/phytology/ALABASTRA

    in Botany, are those little green Leaves which compass in the bottom of the Flower. See CALYX, &c. ALABASTRA

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

  • ASARABACKAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASARABACKA

    resemble those of Gramen, or Dog’s-Tooth; but thatit has a pretty brisk Smell, and bites the tongue when tasted.—Its Leaves were anciently much in Use, as an Emetic, and Cathartic; and in some Authors we find a superstitious Observance in the gathering...

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

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

    Botany, one of the Divisions or Kinds of Plants. See PLANT. The Characters of the Asperifolious Kind, are, that the Leaves stand alternately, or without any certain Order on the Stalks: The Flowers are monopetalous, but have the Margin cut into five...

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

  • ABSTERGENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSTERGENTS

    and Efficacy, from Vulneraries. See BALSAMICK, and VULNERARY. The principal Simples in the Class of Detergents, are the Leaves of Wormwood, Garlick, Leeks, Capers, Scurvygrass, Fumitory, Liverwort, Tansy, and Vervain ; Bitter Almonds, Figs, Jujcbs,...

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

  • AGNUS Castushttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGNUS%20Castus

    the reduplicative Castus, q.d. Chaste, sole or trembling.The Athenian Ladies, who made Profession of Chastity, lay upon leaves of Agnus Castus, during the Feasts of Ceres.See CEREALIA. It is reputed a cooler, and particularly of the genital parts; and...

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

  • ASSIMILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIMILATION

    Earth, being further prepared and digested in the Vessels of the Plant, become of a vegetable Nature, and augment the Wood, Leaves, Fruit, etc. thereof. See VEGETATION, VEGETATION, SAP, WOOD, FRUIT, etc. So in Animal Bodies, we see the Food assimilated,...

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

  • ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT

    ABBOT or ABBAT, the Chief, or Superior of an Abbey, of the Male Kind. See ABBEY, and ABBESS. The Name Abbot is originally Hebrew, where it signifies Father. The Jews call Father in their Language Ab ; whence the Chaldees and Syrians form'd Abba ; and...

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

  • ATOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ATOM

    ATOM, ἄτομος, in Philosophy, a Corpuscle; or a Part or Particle of Matter so minute as to be indivisible. See CORPUSCLE. The Word is Greek, ἄτομος; formed of the privative ἀ, and τέμνω, I cut, I divide. Atoms are properly the minima naturae, the last or...

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

  • ASTHMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ASTHMA

    ASTHMA, in Medicine, a Disease of the Lungs, accompanied with a Shortness, and Difficulty of Respiration. See RESPIRATION and LUNGS. Or, Asthma is a Difficulty of Breathing, arising from a Disorder of the Lungs; and usually attended with violent Motions...

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    ASTRONOMY, Astronomia, the Doctrine of the Heavens, and the Phenomena thereof. See HEAVEN. Astronomy is properly a mixed mathematical Science, whereby we become acquainted with the Celestial Bodies, their Magnitudes, Motions, Distances, Periods,...

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

  • ACADEMICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMICKS

    ACADEMICKS, Academici, Academists, a Sect of ancient Philosophers, founded by Plato, and called, also, the Academy. See ACADEMY. The Academicks, in the later Ages, have taken the Name of Platonists. See PLATONIST. The great Dogma of the Academics was...

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

  • ALLIGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ALLIGATION

    ALLIGATION, in Arithmetic, a Rule or Operation, whereby Questions are resolved, relating to the Mixture of diverse Commodities or Ingredients together, with the Value, Effect, &c. thereof. See RULE, MIXTURE, etc. The Word is formed of the Latin...

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

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    ATTRACTION, Attractio, or Tractio, in Mechanics, the Act of a moving Power, whereby a Moveable is brought nearer to the Mover. See POWER and MOTION. As Action and Re-action are always equal, and contrary; it follows, that in all Attraction, the Mover is...

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

  • ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION

    ANIMAL SECRETION is the Act whereby the divers Juices of the Body are secreted or separated from the common Mass of Blood, by means of the Glands. See SECRETION, BLOOD, and GLAND. The Theory of Animal Secretion is one of the Improvements in Physic, for...

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

  • AMBROSIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/AMBROSIA

    AMBROSIA, in the Heathen Theology, &c. a delicious kind of Food, whereon the Gods were supposed to feed. See FOOD. Lucian, rallying these poetical Gods, tells us, that Ambrosia and Nectar, of which one is the Meat, and the other the Drink of the Gods,...

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

  • AUDIENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDIENCE

    AUDIENCE. See HEARING, ATTENTION, and AUDITORY. The Word is form’d from the corrupt Latin, Audentia, of Audire, to hear. Audience is also used for the Ceremonies practiced in Courts, at the admission of Ambassadors, and public Ministers, to a hearing....

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

  • ABOLITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABOLITION

    ABOLITION, the Act of undoing, destroying, or throwing a Thing out of use. Thus, in our Laws, the Abolition of a Law, Statute, or Custom, is the abrogating or repealing it. See ABROGATION, REPEALING, STATUTE, &c. So, the Leave given by the King or...

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