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  • ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS

    in Philosophy, the Action of two opposite Qualities, one whereof, by its Opposition excites and heightens the Force of the other. See QUALITY. This Word is Greek, Ἀντιπερίστασις; formed of ἀντί, contra against, and περιίστημι, to stand round: q.d....

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

  • ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION

    SECRETION is the Act whereby the divers Juices of the Body are secreted or separated from the common Mass of Blood, by means of the Glands. See SECRETION, BLOOD, and GLAND. The Theory of Animal Secretion is one of the Improvements in Physic, for which...

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

  • ASSAYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSAY

    or Essay, or Say, in Coinage, etc. the Proof or Trial of the Goodness, Purity, Value, etc. of Gold, Silver, or other Metals. See GOLD, SILVER, METAL, etc. The Methods of Assaying, or making Assays, see under the Article ESSAY. Assay of Weights and...

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

  • AERIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AERIAL

    AERIUS, something that consists of Air, or has a relation or resemblance to Air. See AIR. The Essenes, the most refined and rational Sect among the Jews, held that the human Soul consisted of an aerial Matter. See ESSENES. Angels or Spirits, whether...

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

  • ATHANORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHANOR

    ATHANOR, in Alchemy, a large immovable Furnace, built of Brick or Stone, and covered with a tower-top; proper to maintain a temperate and equable degree of heat for a considerable time. See FURNACE, HEAT, etc. The Heat of the Athanor is intended or...

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

  • APPARITORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPARITOR

    APPARITOR, or Apparitour, or Apparator, a Beadle in a University, who carries the Mace before the Masters and the Faculties. See BEADLE and UNIVERSITY. Apparitors are also Messengers, who cite Men to appear in the Ecclesiastical Courts. See SUMMONS,...

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

  • AUTHORITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHORITY

    AUTHORITY, AUCTORITAS, a right to command, and make oneself obeyed. See POWER. In this sense we say the supreme or sovereign authority; absolute or despotic authority; the royal authority; the episcopal authority, the authority of the church; of a...

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

  • ARBITRATORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARBITRATOR

    ARBITRATOR, an extraordinary judge, or commissioner, in one or more causes between party and party, chosen by their mutual consents. See ARBITRATION. An arbitrament is either general, that is, including all actions, quarrels, and demands; or special,...

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

  • ALIENATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALIENATION

    Alienatio, in Law, the Act of making a thing another Man’s; or the altering, and transferring the Property and Possession of Lands, Tenements, or other Things, from one Man to another. See TRANSFERRING, POSSESSION, etc.To alienate, or alien, in...

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

  • AD Quod Damnumhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AD%20Quod%20Damnum

    Quod Damnum, a writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to inquire what harm may befall the king by granting a fair or market in any town, or place. See FAIR, MARKET, etc. The same writ also issues for an inquiry to be made of what the king or other...

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

  • Lawhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law

    LAW or the Rules and Measures of SOCIETY ; publish'd in Act, Statute, Charter, Rescript, Constitution, Decretal, Senatus-consultum, Pragmatic Sanction, &c. Recorded, in institute, Code, Novel, Register, Pandect, Corpus, Domesday, &c. Kinds, Civil,...

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  • ABYSShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ABYSS

    ABYSS, Abyssus, a profound, and as it were, bottomless Gulph, or Cavern. See GULF. The Word is Greek, ἄβυσσος; compounded of the Privative α, and βυθός, I enter, reach - q. d. something impenetrable, or not to be fathomed. In Scripture, the Word Abyss,...

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

  • ACUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACUTE

    ACUTE, sharp, something that terminates in a Point, or an Edge; disposed either for piercing or cutting. See POINT, EDGE, etc. In this sense, the word usually stands opposed to Obtuse.See OBTUSE. Acute Angle, is that which is less than a right angle;or...

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

  • AGUEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGUE

    periodical Disease, consisting in a cold shivering Fit, succeeded by a hot one; and going off in a Diaphoresis, or Sweating. See DISEASE.If the Coldness and Shivering be inconsiderable, and only the hot Fit felt; the Disease is called an Intermitting...

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

  • DAMPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAMPS

    Natural History,are noxious Steams,or Exhalations, frequently sound in close, subterraneous Places, particularly Mines, Pitts, Cellars, &c. For the Rationale of the Effects of Damps, See POISONS and MEPHITES. The Damps in Mines are of 4 Kinds : The...

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

  • ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ABACUS

    as to make the Crown of the Head the whole Head. See CAPITAL, and CROWNING. Vitruvius, and others after him, who give the History of the Orders, tell us, the Abacus was originally intended to represent a square Tile laid over an Urn, or rather over a...

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

  • ACTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTIVE

    ACTIVE, Activus, something that communicates Motion, or Action to another. See ACTION. In this sense, the word stands opposed to Passive. See PASSIVE. Thus, we say, an Active Cause, Active Principles, &c.See CAUSE. The Quantity of Motion in the World,...

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

  • ACETOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACETOUS

    ACETOUS, something relating to Acetum, or vinegar. See ACETUM and VINEGAR. Thus, we say, an acetous taste; acetous qualities, etc. Wine and all vinous liquors are rendered acetous by exciting their salts and tempering or abating their sulfurs. See WINE...

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

  • APOSTLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTLE

    Ἀπόστολος, q.d. Envoy or Messenger; a Disciple of Jesus Christ, commissioned by him to preach his Gospel, and propagate it to all the Parts of the Earth. See GOSPEL. St. Paul is frequently called the Apostle, by way of Eminence; and the Apostle of the...

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

  • AQUEOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUEOUS

    Aquosus, something that partakes of the Nature of Water, or abounds therein. See WATER. Thus, Milk is said to consist of an aqueous or serous, and a butyrous Part. See MILK. The Chemists separate the aqueous Part or Phlegm from all Bodies by...

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