Cyclopædia
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ARMARIUM Unguentumhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMARIUM%20Unguentum
Unguentum, in ancient Writers, a sympathetic Ointment, or Weapon Salve, whereby Wounds are said to have been cured at a Distance, by only dressing the Weapon. See SYMPATHETIC. ARMARIUM Unguentum
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ANTIDICOMARIANITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIDICOMARIANITES
or Antidicomarianites, ancient Heretics, who pretended that the Holy Virgin had not preserved her Virginity, but that she had several Children by Joseph. See VIRGIN. Their Opinion was grounded on some Expressions of our Saviour, wherein he mentioned his...
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ACCELERATOR Urinaehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCELERATOR%20Urinae
ACCELERATOR Urinae, a Muscle of the Penis, by some made a Pair of Muscles; thus called from its Office in expediting the Discharge of the Urine and Semen. See MUSCLE, PENIS, USE. It arises tendinous from the upper and sore-part of the Urethra; but soon...
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ATOMICAL PHILOSOPHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATOMICAL%20PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY, the doctrine of atoms; or a method of accounting for the origin and formation of all things, from the supposition of atoms, endowed with gravity and motion. See ATOM, WORLD, etc. The atomical philosophy was first broached and taught by...
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Theriaca, or Treacle of ANDROMACHUS, in Pharmacy, is a capital Alexipharmic Composition; called also Venice Treacle. See THERIACA, and ALEXIPHARMIC. ANDROMACHI Theriaca
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AUGUSTAN CONFESSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUGUSTAN%20CONFESSION
CONFESSION, was a confession of faith, made by the ancient Reformers at Augusta, or Augsburg, in Germany. See CONFESSION, REFORMATION, PROTESTANT, LUTHERANISM, etc. AUGUSTAN CONFESSION
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OF INFINITES, is the Method of summing up a Series of Numbers consisting of infinite Terms; or of finding the Ratios thereof. See INFINITE, SERIES, etc. This Method was first invented by Dr. Wallis; as appears from his Opera Mathematica, where he shows...
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ANGLE IN THE SEGMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20THE%20SEGMENT
equal to one another; that is, any Angle EHG is equal to any Angle EFG in the same Segment EFG. The Angle at the Periphery, or in the Segment, is comprehended between two Chords AB and BD, and stands on the Arch AB. See CHORD, &c. The Measure of an...
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SEXAGESIMAL ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SEXAGESIMAL%20ARITHMETIC
ARITHMETIC, is that which proceeds by Sixties; or, the Doctrine of Sexagesimal Fractions. See SEXAGESIMAL. Sam. Reyher has invented a Kind of Sexagenal Rods, in Imitation of Napier’s Bones; by means whereof the Sexagenary Arithmetic is easily performed....
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ARITHMETICAL COMPLEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETICAL%20COMPLEMENT
the last, is subtracted from 9; and that from 10. See LOGARITHM. Arithmetic Progression, see Progression. Arithmetical Proportion, see Proportion. Arithmetical Medium or Mean, see Medium. ARITHMETICAL COMPLEMENT
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DE SPINIS ET BOSCO, signifies an ancient privilege granted to the officers of forests, to take to their own use, thorns, brush, and windfalls, within their own precincts or liberties. See FOREST.
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APOSTOLORUM Unguentum, the Apostles Ointment, in Pharmacy, is a kind of detergent, or cleansing Unguent, composed of twelve Drugs; the Number of the Apostles, whence its Name. See OINTMENT. It was invented by Avicenna, and is otherwise called Unguentum...
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and Absurdity which arises from denying it. See DEMONSTRATION. Hence it is also called, Reductio ad impossibile, or ad absurdum. See REDUCTION and ASSUMPTION. APAGOGICAL Demonstration
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