Cyclopædia
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ANTARCTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTARCTIC
or Antarctic, Pole, the Southern Pole, or End of the Earth’s Axis; so called because it is opposite to the Arctic or North Pole. See POLE, SOUTH, ARCTIC, etc. The Stars near the Antarctic Pole never appear above our Horizon. See STAR, HORIZON, etc. The...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTAGONISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTAGONIST
an Adversary; or a Party opposite to another in any Combat or Dispute. See ADVERSARY, etc. The Word is formed from the Greek ἀντί, contra, against, and ἀγωνίζομαι, oppono, I oppose. ANTAGONIST
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AMSDORFIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/AMSDORFIANS
Leader Amsdorf. Sanderus, Her. 186, represents them as maintaining, that good Works were not only unprofitable, but even opposite and pernicious to Salvation—The Amsdorfians were rigid Confessionists. AMSDORFIANS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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ANTICHTHONEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTICHTHONES
in Geography, are those People who inhabit Countries opposite to each other. The Word is Compounded of ἀντί, contra, and γῆ, Terra. The Term Antichthones is now used in the same Sense with Antipodes; but the Ancients used it in a different one. They...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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ARCTICK CIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCTICK%20CIRCLE
to the equator, and 23° 30’ distant from the North Pole; from whence its name. See CIRCLE and SPHERE. This, and its opposite, the Antarctic, are called the two polar circles; and may be conceived to be described by themotion of the poles of the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTIADIAPHORISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIADIAPHORISTS
Antiadiaphorista, those opposite to the Adiaphorists. See ADIAPHORIST. This Name was given, in the XVIth Century, to the rigid Lutherans, who disavowed the Episcopal Jurisdiction, and many of the Church Ceremonies, retained by the Moderate Lutherans....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTARCTIC Circlehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTARCTIC%20Circle
to the Equator, at the distance of 23 deg. 30 min. from the South Pole. See CIRCLE. It takes its Name from its being opposite to another Circle, parallel likewise to the Equator, and at the same distance from the North Pole; called the Arctic Circle....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTAGONIST MUSCLEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ANTAGONIST%20MUSCLES
MUSCLES, in Anatomy, are those which have opposite Functions. See MUSCLE. Such are the Flexor and Extensor of any Limb, the one whereof contracts it, and the other stretches it out. See FLEXOR and EXTENSOR. We have some solitary Muscles, without any...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Anatomy