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  • ACCOMPANYMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOMPANYMENT

    ACCOMPANYMENT, something attending, or added as a Circumstance to another; either by way of Ornament, or for the sake of Symmetry, or the like. See CIRCUMSTANCE. The Music, in Dramatic Performances, should only be a simple Accompaniment. The Organists...

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

  • AUDITA QUERELAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITA%20QUERELA

    QUERELA, a writ which lies against him, who, having taken a Statute-Merchant, or a Recognizance in the nature of a Statute-Staple, or a judgment, or a recognizance of another; and craving, or having obtained execution of the same from the Mayor and...

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

  • TO THE KINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/to-the-king

    By these the Mind is reclaim'd from its native Wildness ; and enrich'd with Sentiments which lead to Virtue and Glory. 'Tis these, in sine, that make the Difference between your Majesty 's Subjects, and the Savages of Canada, or the Cape of Good Hope....

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

  • AGONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AGON

    in antiquity, agon, q. d. combat; a dispute or contention for the mastery, either in some exercises of the body, or the mind. There were of these agones, on certain days, in most of their feasts, and other ceremonies, in honor of gods or heroes. See...

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

  • ANAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANA

    or aa, in Medicine, denotes an equal Quantity of any Thing, whether in liquid or dry Measure. See A. Hence Analectica Proportio is used by some Writers to signify the Ratio, or Proportion of Equality. See EQUALITY, RATIO, &c. Ana, in Matters of...

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

  • ARMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/military-art/ARMY

    a body of soldiers, horse and foot, divided into regiments, under the command of a general, with several ranks of subordinate officers under him. See SOLDIER, GENERAL, OFFICER, REGIMENT, etc. See also CAVALRY, INFANTRY, etc. This is to be understood of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Military art

  • AULIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AULIC

    AULICA, an Act which a young Divine maintains in some foreign Universities, upon the Admission of a new Doctor of Divinity. See ACT. It is so called from the Latin, Aula, a Hall; it being in the Hall of the University that this Act is usually held. See...

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

  • ANATOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/anatomy

    the Art of dissecting, or artificially taking to pieces, the solid Parts of Animal Bodies; in order to an exact Discovery of their Structure and Economy. See ANIMAL, BODY, DISSECTION, and ECONOMY. Anatomy makes a great Branch of that Division of...

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

  • APHELIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APHELION

    or Aphelium, in Astronomy, that Point of the Earth’s or a Planet’s Orbit, in which it is the farthest distant from the Sun that it can be. See ORBIT. Thus a Planet being in A, (Tab. Astronomy, fig. 1) its utmost Distance from the Sun S is said to be in...

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

  • ASBESTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ASBESTOS

    or Amianthus, Lapis, in natural History, called also Carysios Lapis, an incombustible Matter; supposed by some to be a sort of Flax, growing on the Pyrenees; whence it is also called Linum vivum, Linum Incombustibile, &c.; The Asbestos, or Lapis...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ALLEGORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLEGORY

    ALLEGORY, Allegoria, a Figure in Rhetoric, whereby we make use of Terms which in their proper Signification, mean something else than what they are here intended to denote: Or, it is a Figure, whereby we say one thing, expecting it shall be understood...

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

  • ATLANTIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIS

    ATLANTIS, or ATLANTICA, in Antiquity an Island spoken of by Plato and other Writers, under some extraordinary Circumstances; and rendered famous by a Controversy among the Moderns about it. The most distinct Account of this celebrated Place, is given...

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

  • ADJECTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ADJECTIVE

    Noun Adjective, or ADNOUN, in Grammar, a kind of noun joined with a noun substantive, either expressed or understood, to show its manner of being, that is, its qualities or accidents. See NOUN, etc. The word is formed from the Latin "adjicere," meaning...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    or Antoecians, in Geography, a relative Term, understood of such Inhabitants of the Earth as live diametrically opposite to one another. See EARTH. The Antipodes are those who live in Parallels of Latitude equally distant from the Equator, the one...

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

  • ABORIGINEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ABORIGINES

    or ABORIGENES, in Geography, a Name sometimes given to the primitive Inhabitants of a Country, or those who had their original therein ; in contra-distinction to Colonies, or new Races of Inhabitants, deriv'd from eliewhere. See COLONY. The Term...

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

  • APOCALYPSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCALYPSE

    Revelation; the Name of the last Book in the Canon of Scripture. See CANON and BIBLE. The Apocalypse contains Discoveries, or Revelations relating to many important Mysteries of Christian Faith; made to the Apostle St. John, in the Isle of Patmos,...

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

  • ACADEMICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMICKS

    The great Dogma of the Academics was this: Unum scio, quod nihil scio; (I know this one thing, that I know nothing.) Accordingly, they pleaded, that the Mind ought always to remain undetermined and in Suspense; as having nothing to determine on but bare...

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

  • AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE

    Ambergrease, Amber-Grise, Ambarum, a fragrant drug, that melts almost like wax; commonly of a greyish or ash-color, used both as a perfume and a cordial. It is found on the sea-coasts, in several countries; as along the southern and eastern parts of...

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

  • AMALGAMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAMATION

    in Chemistry, the Operation of making an Amalgama; i.e., of calcining, or rather dissolving some Metal, especially Gold, by means of Mercury. See AMALGAMA. Amalgamation is performed by fusing, or at least igniting the Metal; and in this State adding a...

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

  • Vice-ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/Vice-ADMIRAL

    See VICE-ADMIRAL. Vice-ADMIRAL is also an officer appointed by the Lord High Admiral, in various parts of the kingdom, with judges and marshals subordinate to him; for the exercising of jurisdiction in maritime affairs, within their respective...

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