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  • ATTIREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/phytology/ATTIRE

    in botany, is used to denote the third part or division of the flower of a plant; the other two being the Empalement and the Foliation. See FLOWER. See also EMPALEMENT. This Attire is of two kinds; Semini-form, and Florid. The Semini-form Attire...

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

  • AUGMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUGMENT

    See AUGMENTATION. AUGMENT, AUGMENTUM, in the Greek grammar, an increase of the quantity, either of a letter, or a word. See QUANTITY. There are two kinds of augments.—Temporale, or of a letter, when a short vowel is changed into a long one; or a...

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

  • ACQUESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACQUEST

    ACQUEST, or Acquist, is understood, in a legal Sense, of Goods, or Effects, immovable, not descended or held by Inheritance; but acquired, either by Purchase or Donation.See GOODS.The Word is French; formed of the Verb Acquerir, to acquire.—The French...

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

  • ARCHIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHIVE

    or Archives, a chamber wherein the records, charters, and other papers and evidences of a house or community are preserved. See RECORD, PAPER, etc. Thus, we say the archives of a college, of a monastery, etc. The archives of ancient Rome were in the...

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

  • ALNAGERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALNAGER

    Aulnager, or AULNEGER, q. d. a Measurer by the Ell; signifies a sworn public Officer, who, by himself or Deputy, is to look to the Assize of woollen Cloth made through the Land, i.e., the Length, Width, and Quality thereof; and to the Seals for that...

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

  • ANNULARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNULAR

    Annularis, something that relates to, or resembles, a Ring, by the Latins called Anulus. See RING. Annular Protuberance, is a Process of the Medulla Oblongata; thus called by Dr. Willis, in regard it surrounds the same, much like a Ring. See MEDULLA...

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

  • ADDICTIOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADDICTIO

    ADDICTIO, Addiction, in Roman Law, is a transferring or passing over goods to another; whether by sentence of a court, or in the way of sale, to the highest bidder. See ALIENATION. The word stands opposed to Abdicatio, or Abdication. See ABDICATION,...

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

  • ALDERMANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALDERMAN

    among our ancient Saxon Ancestors, was one of the three Orders or Degrees of Nobility. See NOBILITY, ETHELING WAS THE FIRST, ALDERMAN THE SECOND, and THANE THE LOWEST. See ETHELING, and THANE.The Alderman was the same as our Earl or Count; which...

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

  • ASTRAGALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ASTRAGAL

    in his Odyssey, uses the Term on this Occasion. See VERTEBRAE. ASTRAGAL, in Architecture, is a little round Member, in form of a Ring, or Bracelet; serving as an Ornament on the Tops and at the Bottoms of Columns. See MOULDING, COLUMN, etc.: The...

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

  • ANALEMMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALEMMA

    a Planisphere; or Projection of the Sphere, on the Plane of the Meridian, orthographically made, by straight Lines and Ellipses; the Eye being supposed to be at an infinite Distance; and in the East or West Points of the Horizon. See PLANISPHERE,...

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

  • AGREEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGREEMENT

    Acraementum, in Law, is defined by Plowder, a joining or putting together of two or more Minds in any thing done, or to be done. Of this there may be three sorts. The first, an Agreement executed at the Beginning; mention’d in the Stat. of 25 Edw. III....

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

  • ACCRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCRETION

    ACCRETION, the growth or increase of an organic body by the accession of new parts. See NUTRITION. Accretion is of two kinds; the one consisting in an external apposition of new matter. This is what we otherwise call Juxtaposition; and thus, stones,...

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

  • ARCHETYPEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHETYPE

    Archetypos, a pattern or model, by which any work is formed, or which is copied after, tomake another like it. See MODEL. In this sense the word coincides with original; and stands opposed to copy. See ORIGINAL and COPY. Among minters, &c., archetype is...

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

  • ACUTENESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/phonics/ACUTENESS

    ACUTENESS, in Music, etc., that which constitutes or denominates a sound, etc. acute. See ACUTE. There is no such thing as Acuteness and Gravity, absolutely so called; they are only relations; so that the same sound may be either Acute or Grave,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Phonics - Music

  • ATTENTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTENTION

    a due application of the ear, or the mind, to anything said, or done. Attention of mind is not properly an act of understanding, but rather of the will, by which it calls the understanding from the consideration of other objects, and directs it to the...

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

  • ANNOISANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ANNOISANCE

    or Nuisance, in Law, a Hurt or Offense, either to a public place, such as a Highway, Bridge, or common River; or to a private one, by laying anything that may breed Infection; by encroaching, or the like means. See NUISANCE. Annoisance is also used for...

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

  • APPOSITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPOSITION

    the Act of putting or applying one thing to another. See APPLICATION. Apposition is used in Physics, with respect to Bodies, which derive their Growth from the Adjunction or Union of neighboring Bodies. See ADJUNCTION. Most Bodies of the fossil or...

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

  • APPEARANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPEARANCE

    the exterior Surface of a Thing; or that which first strikes the Sense, or the Imagination. See EXTERIOR and SURFACE. The Academics maintain, that the sensible Qualities of Bodies are only Appearances; and the like Doctrine is held by some later...

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

  • ABBREVIATUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ABBREVIATURE

    or ABBREVIATION, a Contraction of a Word, or Passage ; made by dropping some of the Letters, and substituting certain Marks, or Characters in their Place. See SYMBOL. Lawyers, Physicians, &c. use abundance of Abbreviatures ; partly for the sake of...

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

  • ADVANCE-Guardhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVANCE-Guard

    or Van-Guard, is the first line or division of an army ranged or marching in battle-array;that part which is next the enemy, or which marches first toward them. See LINE. The whole body of an army is divided into Advance-Guard, Rear-Guard, and Main...

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