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  • ARSENALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARSENAL

    a royal or public magazine, or place appointed for the making, and keeping of arms necessary either for defence, or assault. See ARMS and ARMORY. The Arsenal of Venice is the place where the galleys are built and laid up.—The Arsenal of Paris, is that...

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

  • AUXILIARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUXILIARY

    auxiliaris, anything that is helping or assisting to another. See AUXILIUM. Thus we say a prince is to trust more to his own soldiers, than to auxiliary troops, etc. Auxiliary verbs, in grammar, are such as help to form or conjugate others; that is, are...

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

  • ATTORNMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTORNMENT

    ATTORNMENT, in Law, a transferring of Duty and Service to another Lord; or an Acknowledgment which a Tenant makes of Homage and Service to a new Lord. See LORD and TENANT. Thus, when one is Tenant for Life, and he in Reversion grants his Right to...

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

  • AMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMEN

    a Church Term, used as the Conclusion of all solemn Prayers, &c. and signifying, so be it, or fiat. The Hebrews had four kinds of Amen — That just mentioned they called Amen past; which was accompanied with the greatest Attention, and Devotion: In this...

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

  • AREAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AREA

    properly denotes any plain surface whereon wewalk. See SURFACE. The word is Latin, and originally signifies a threshing floor; formed of the verb areo. See THRESHING. Area, in matters of building, signifies the extent ofthe floor. See FLOOR. Area, in...

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

  • ATTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTIC

    Atticus, something relating to Attica, or the city Athens. In matters of philology, we use Attic salt, Sales Attici, for a delicate, poignant kind of wit and humor; peculiar to the Athenian writers: Attic witness, Atticus testis, was a witness incapable...

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

  • APOGEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APOGEE

    ἀπόγειος in Astronomy, that Point in the Orbit of the Sun, or a Planet, which is furthest distant from the Earth. See ORBIT and EARTH. The Apogee is a Point in the Heavens, at the Extreme of the Line of the Apsides; in which the Sun, or a Planet, is at...

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

  • AUDITORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITOR

    AUDITOR, a hearer, or one who listens or attends to anything. See HEARING, ATTENTION, and AUDITORY. AUDITOR is also used for several officers, appointed to audit, or hear accounts, pleadings, etc. See ACCOUNT. Anciently the word AUDITOR was also used...

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

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

    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 another that is. See FORNICATION, MARRIAGE, etc. The ancient Romans had no formal...

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

  • ÆOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆOLIPILE

    Aeolipile, a hydraulic Instrument, consisting of a hollow metallic Ball, with a slender Neck or Pipe arising from the same; which being filled with Water, and thus exposed to the Fire, produces a vehement Blast of Wind. See WIND. This Instrument,...

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

  • ABSOLUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSOLUTE

    understood of something that is free, or independent of another. Hence, as there are various ways wherein one thing may be consider'd is free in respect of another, there arise divers sorts of Absolutes. Absolute, e. g. sometimes imports a Thing which...

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

  • DEFTARDARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/DEFTARDAR

    or DEFTERDER, the Treasurer of the Revenues of the Turkish, and Persian Empire. See TREASURER.Meninski calls him Supremus Thesaurarius, High Treasurer; and Præfes Camera, President of the Exchequer; And Castellus makes him the Keeper, and Comptroller of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • AFFECTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AFFECTION

    Affectio, in Physics, a Quality or Property of some natural Being. See QUALITY, and PROPERTY. The Schoolmen define Affection an Attribute proper to any Being, arising from the Essence thereof. See ATTRIBUTE, PROPER, etc. Affections are distinguished...

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

  • AEOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEOLIPILE

    Aeolipile, a hydraulic Instrument, consisting of a hollow metallic Ball, with a slender Neck or Pipe arising from the same; which being filled with Water, and thus exposed to the Fire, produces a vehement Blast of Wind. See Wind. This Instrument,...

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

  • ASCENSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSION

    a rising, or moving See ASCENT, ASCENDANT, ASCENDING, etc. Ascension is particularly used for that miraculous Elevation of our Saviour, when he mounted to Heaven in the Sight of his Apostles. Hence also, Ascension Day, a Festival of the Church, held ten...

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

  • ABJURATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABJURATION

    a solemn Renunciation, or Recantation of an Error, Heresy, or false Doctrine. See RECANTATION. The Word is form'd of the Latin Abjurare ; which in Cicero, and other Roman Writers, signifies the denying a thing upon Oath. Thus, Abjurare creditum, was to...

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

  • ABSOLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABSOLUTION

    a definitive Sentence, whereby a Person accused of any Crime, &c. is acquitted, and declared Innocent. Among the Romans, the ordinary Method of pronouncing Judgment was this : After the Cause had been pleaded on both sides, the Pretor used the Word...

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

  • ARCHITRAVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITRAVE

    in building, that part of a column,or order of column, which lies immediately upon the capital. See ORDER and CAPITAL. The Architrave is the lowest member of the frieze, andeven of the whole entablature. See FRIEZE and ENTABLATURE. The Architrave is...

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

  • AMPLIFICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/AMPLIFICATION

    in Rhetoric, part of a Discourse or Speech, wherein a Crime is aggravated, a Praise or Commendation heightened, or a Narration enlarged by an Enumeration of Circumstances; so as to excite the proper Passions in the Souls of the Auditors. See ORATORY,...

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

  • APPARENT PLACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/optics/APPARENT%20PLACE

    PLACE of any Object, in Optics, is that wherein it appears, when seen through one or more Glasses. See PLACE, OPTIC GLASS, etc. The Apparent Place is different from the real one; for when, by Refraction through Glasses, that parcel of Rays which falls...

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