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ASSOCIATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSOCIATION
Law, is a Patent sent by the King, either of his own Motion, or at the Suit of the Party Plaintiff, to the Justices of Assize; to have other Persons associated to them, in order to take the Assize. See PATENT and ASSIZE. Upon this Patent of Association,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARC-BOUTANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARC-BOUTANT
in building, a flat arch or part of an arch abutting against the reins of a vault, to support, and prevent its giving way. See VAULT. Arc-boutants are only arched buttresses. The name is French; formed of arc and boutant, to abut. ARC-BOUTANT
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ARRANGEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARRANGEMENT
or Rancumenr, the Difpofition of the Parts of a Whole, ina sertain Order. See PART and DISPOSITION.
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ANGERONALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANGERONALIA
in Antiquity, solemn Feasts, held by the Romans, on the 21st of December, in honour of Angerona, or Angeronia, the Goddess of Patience and Silence. See FESTUS. Festus and Julius Modestus, quoted by Macrobius, Saturnalia, Lib. I, c. 10, derive the Name...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ANACAMPTICKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANACAMPTICK
as much as Reflecting; and is frequently used in reference to Echoes, which are said to be Sounds produced anacamptically, or by Reflection. See REFLECTION, SOUND, and ECHO. Hence also Anacampticks is by some used for Catoptricks. See CATOPTRICS,...
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ARRIERE-FEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARRIERE-FEE
or Fee, is a fee dependent on some other superior one. See FEE. These commenced at the time when the counts and dukes, rendering their governments hereditary in their families, distributed to their officers certain parts of the royal domains which they...
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ANTECHAMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTECHAMBER
or Antichamber, an outer Chamber, before the chief Chamber of an Apartment; where the Servants wait, and Strangers stay, till the Person to be spoken withal is at leisure, etc. See APARTMENT. The Word is formed of the Latin Ante Camera. See CHAMBER....
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ARCH DAPIFERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH%20DAPIFER
DAPIFER, or Chief-Sewer, is another officer of the Empire. See EMPIRE. The Elector of Bavaria is Archdapifer—The Palatine ofthe Rhine pretended this office was annexed to his Palatinate; but has since desisted. See PALATINATE. ARCH DAPIFER
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ASSEVERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSEVERATION
earnest Affirmation, or Avouching. See AFFIRMATION, &c. Assideans, Assideans,in Antiquity, a Sect among the Jews; thus called from the Hebrew, חסידים, chasidim, meaning merciful, righteous—The Assideans are recorded as holding Works of Supererogation...
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ABLAQUEATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/agriculture/ABLAQUEATION
a Name used by the antient Writers of Agriculture, for an Operation in Gardening, whereby Earth is dug from about a Vine, or other Fruit-Tree, and its Roots laid bare, to expose 'em more to the Sun, Rain, and Air, in order to promote its Fecundity. See...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Agriculture
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ARTICULATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ARTICULATION
in Grammar, a distinct Pronunciation of Words and Syllables. See PRONUNCIATION, &c. Articulation, is that part of Grammar which treats first of Sounds, and Letters; then of their Combination, for the composing of Syllables and Words. Hence he who...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Grammar
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ABBROACHMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABBROACHMENT
an obsolete Term in some of our antient Law-Books, for the Act of ingrossing, or buying up a Commodity by Wholesale, in order to sell it off by Retail. See FORESTALLING. ABBROACHMENT
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ARCHMINISTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHMINISTER
Archiminister, the Prime Minister of a Prince or State. See MINISTER. Charles the Bald, having declared Boson his viceroy in Italy under the title of Duke, made him also his first minister under that of Archminister: from the Greek ἀρχή, and the Latin...
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AGNUS Castushttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGNUS%20Castus
Castus, a shrub, was famous among the ancients as a specific for the preservation of chastity, and the preventing of all venereal desires, pollutions, etc. The Greeks called it "Agnos," to which has since been added the reduplicative Castus, q.d....
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ARGENTUM DEIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARGENTUM%20DEI
DEI, God's Penny; anciently signified earnest money, or money given to bind a bargain; in some places called Earnest. And he took from the said Henry three silver pennies by hand. See CONVENTION. ARGENTUM DEI
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ARRHABONARIIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ARRHABONARII
a Sect in Religion,who held that the Eucharist is neither the real Flesh and Blood of Christ, nor yet the Sign of them, but only the Pledge or Earnest thereof. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀρραβών, Arrha, Earnest. ARRHABONARII
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALBUM Grecumhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALBUM%20Grecum
Grecum, or Stercus Canis Officinale, dog's white dung, is a medicinal drug, in the present practice, used with honey, to cleanse and deterge, chiefly in inflammations of the throat; and that principally outwardly, as a plaster. ALBUM Grecum
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AGGLUTINANTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/AGGLUTINANTS
in Medicine, are a kind of strengthening remedy that adheres to the solid parts of the body, replenishing what is worn off and wasted in the body's actions. See MEDICINES, NUTRITION, etc. Most of these are glutinous in nature or easily form into gels...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARGYRASPIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARGYRASPIDES
in Antiquity, Persons armed with Silver Bucklers, or Bucklers silvered. See BUCKLER. The Argyraspides, according to Quintus Curtius, Lib. iv. c. 13, made the second Corps of Alexander's Army, the first were the Phalanx. See PHALANX. According to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANCYLGLOSSUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCYLGLOSSUS
ἀγκυλόγλωσσος, one that is Tongue-tied, or has an Impediment in his Speech, arising from a Contraction of the Frenum of the Tongue. See TONGUE. ANCYLGLOSSUS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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