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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...

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

  • AMBULATORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBULATORY

    AMBULATORY, a Term anciently applied to such Courts, &c. as were not fixed to any certain Place; but held sometimes in one Place, and sometimes in another. In opposition to Sedentary Courts. See COURT, and SEDENTARY. The Court of Parliament was...

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

  • ALBIGENSEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ALBIGENSES

    ALBIGENSES, a Sect or Party of Reformers about Toulouse, and the Albigenses, in Languedoc; who, in the XIIth Century, became remarkable for their opposition to the Discipline and Ceremonies of the Church of Rome. See REFORMATION. They were also known by...

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

  • ADVERSATIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ADVERSATIVE

    ADVERSATIVE, in Grammar.— A particle or conjunction adversative is that which expresses some difference, or opposition between what goes before, and what follows. See CONJUNCTION. Thus, or is an adversative, e.g. Yes, or no. ADVERSATIVE

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

  • ADVENTITIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVENTITIOUS

    ADVENTITIOUS, something accruing or befalling a person or thing from without. See ACCESSION, etc.Thus, Adventitious Matter, is such matter as does not properly belong to any body, but is casually joined to it.See ACCRETION, APPUNCTION, etc....

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

  • AURUM FULMINANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURUM%20FULMINANS

    AURUM FULMINANS, fulminating or thundering gold. See AURUM FULMINANS. It is inflammable, not only by fire, but also by a gentle heat and gives a report much louder than that of gunpowder. Its effect is commonly said to be principally downwards; in...

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

  • Medicinehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine

    of LIFE and HEALTH; Conditions thereof, Longevity, Strength, Temperament, &c. Means, as Food, Drink, Exercise, &c. Opposites, as Death, Disease, &c. Kinds hereof, Chronic, Epidemic, Contagious, &c. as Plague, Fever, Gout, Apoplexy, Epilepsy, Palsy. Pox,...

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  • Geometryhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry

    or Continuous QUANTITY, viz. l°, Lines, Right, Perpendicular, Parallel, Oblique, &c. Angles, Acute, Scalenous, Vertical, Opposite, &c. z°, Figures, or Surfaces, Triangle, Square, Parallelogram, Trapezium, Polygon, &c. Circumstances hereof, as Perimeter,...

    • Type: Category

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

    At eleven years, his teeth are very long, yellow, black, and foul; but he will cut even, and his teeth stand directly opposite to one another. At twelve, the upper teeth hang over the lower. At thirteen, the tusks are worn close to his chaps, if he have...

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

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    as much service as it was of disservice in the ascending one. Some of the Germans have also brought the Air-Pump to do the opposite Office of a Condenser: But this is not to make the Instrument so much better, as more complex. See CONDENSER. The...

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

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

    of the Heart, consists of two reciprocal Motions, a Systole or Contraction, and a Diastole or Dilatation: But they keep opposite Times; the Systole of the one answering to the Diastole of the other. See PULSE, SYSTOLE, and DIASTOLE. All the Arteries of...

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

  • ANTOECIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTOECI

    are frequently confounded with Antisci. See ANTISCI. The Antoeci have precisely the same Hours of the Day and Night; but opposite Seasons: when it's 12 o'Clock in the longest Summer Day with one; it's 12 o'Clock of the shortest Winter's Day with the...

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

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

    as they suppose, irregular manner: as in the case of horizontal eclipses; where, though the sun and moon are diametrically opposite, yet they appear as if above the horizon, by reason of the refraction. See ECLIPSE, REFRACTION, etc. ADULTERY

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

  • ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET

    corresponding are to keep by them. See CYPHER. - It is properly an Alphabet of the usual Letters disposed in their Order; opposite to, or underneath which, are the secret Characters corresponding thereto, with the blank or useless Letters, and the other...

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

  • ATLANTIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIS

    which amounts, in a few Words, to what follows.—"The Atlantis was a large Island in the Western Ocean, situated before, or opposite to, the Straits of Gibraltar. Out of this Island there was an easy Passage into some others, which lay near a large...

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

  • ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION

    together ; and form and consider Ideas of Things thus separated. See ABSTRACT. The Faculty of Abstracting, stands directly opposite to that of Compounding — By Composition we consider those Things together, which in reality are not join'd together in...

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

  • Metaphysicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/metaphysics

    as Unity, Multitude, Infinity, Universal, &c. Quantity, Quality, Whole, Part, &c. Genus, Species, Difference, &c. Proper, Opposite, Circumslance, External, &c. Effects hereos, Knowledge, Science, Art, Experience, &c. Conditions, Probability, Certainty,...

    • Type: Category

  • ARRIEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARRIERE

    ARRONDIE, in Heraldry, a Cross-Arrondie, or rounded, is that whose arms are composed of sections of a circle, not opposite to each other, so as to make the arm bulge out thicker in one part than another; but both the sections of each arm lie the same...

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

  • ANTICORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICOR

    of the Size and Figure of an Apple, occasioned by a sanguine and bilious Humour; and appearing in the Horse’s Breast opposite to his Heart. A late Author affirms that the generality of Writers on that Subject have been mistaken as to this Disease;...

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

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

    in Grammar, the sixth Case of Nouns. See CASE. The Ablative is opposite to the Dative ; the first expressing the Aaion of taking away, and the latter that of giving. See DATIVE. The Word is Latin, form'd ab auferendo, taking away. Priscian also calls it...

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