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  • AMBARVALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AMBARVALIA

    in Antiquity, a Feast, or Ceremony among the Romans; celebrated annually, to procure of the Gods a happy Harvest. See FEAST, etc. At these Feasts, they sacrificed a Bull, a Sow, and a Sheep; which, before the Sacrifice, were led in Procession around the...

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

  • ACOUSTICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOUSTICKS

    ACOUSTICKS, Acoustica, the Doctrine or Theory of Sounds. See SOUND.Acoustics is what we otherwise call Phonics.Phonics.Acoustics, or Acoustica, or Acoustic Medicines, are Remedies against the Imperfections and Disorders of the Ear; or of the Sense of...

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

  • ASSEMBLAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSEMBLAGE

    the joining or uniting of several Thingstogether; or, the Things themselves so joined, or united. See UNION, etc. The Assemblage of two Bones for Motion, is called Articulation. See ARTICULATION. The Carpenters and Joiners have various Kinds andForms of...

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

  • APPROACHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/fortification/APPROACHES

    in Fortification, the several Works made by the Besiegers for advancing or getting nearer to a Fortress, or Place besieged. See WORK, FORTIFICATION. Such are Trenches, Mines, Saps, Lodgments, Batteries, etc. See TRENCH, MINE, SAP, BATTERY, etc....

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

  • ACCOUNTANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOUNTANT

    ACCOUNTANT, or Accountant, a person or officer appointed to keep or make up the accounts of a company, office, court, or the like. See ACCOUNT. There are accountants in the Customhouse, the Excise, etc. See EXCISE, and CUSTOMHOUSE. The...

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

  • ATTRAHENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTRAHENTS

    ATTRAHENTIA, or ATTRACTIVE Remedies, such Medicines, externally applied, as by their Activity and Warmth penetrate the Pores; and mix with and rarefy any obstructed Matter; so as to render it fit for Discharge, upon laying open the Part by Caustic or...

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

  • ANNOTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNOTATION

    a succinct Commentary, or Remark on any Book, or Writing; in order to clear up some Passage, or to draw some Induction or Consequence from it. See COMMENTARY, etc. The Critics of the last Age have made learned Annotations on the Scriptures; the...

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

  • ABBREUVOIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/trades-and-manufactures/ABBREUVOIR

    or ABREVOIR, in Masonry, the Joint, or Joncture of two Stones ; or the Interstice, or Space left between 'em to be fill'd up with Mortar. See STONE, MORTAR, MASONRY, &c. The Word is French, and literally denotes a Watering-place. ABREUVOIR

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Trades & manufactures

  • APHRONITREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APHRONITRE

    Aphronitrum, a kind of Nitre, mentioned by the Ancients; supposed to be the Spume, or the lightest and subtilest Part thereof, emerging to the top. See NITRE. Some modern Naturalists rather take the ancient Aphronitre to have been a Native Salt-Petre;...

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

  • ACANTABOLUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACANTABOLUS

    ACANTABOLUS, or Acanthabolus, a Surgeon's Instrument; called also Volsella. 'Tis shaped like a Pair of Pincers; and is used to take out any prickly Substance that shall chance to stick to the Oesophagus or Gullet; or the Fragments of corrupted Bones,...

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

  • ABLACTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening/ABLACTATION

    in Gardening, a Method of Engrafting, more usually call'd Inarching, or Grafting by approach. See GRAFTING. Ablactation is only practicable where the Stock to be grafted on, and the Tree from which the Graft is to be taken, stand so near, that the...

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

  • ADVERSATIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ADVERSATIVE

    in Grammar.— A particle or conjunction adversative is that which expresses some difference, or opposition between what goes before, and what follows. See CONJUNCTION. Thus, or is an adversative, e.g. Yes, or no. ADVERSATIVE

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

  • ALTERCATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALTERCATION

    a Debate or Contest between two Friends or Acquaintance. They never come to an open Quarrel; but there is continually some little Altercation or other. The Word comes from the Latin Altercari, which anciently signified to converse or hold Discourse...

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

  • ARBITRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARBITRATION

    or Arbitrament, the referring of a cause or quarrel to the decision of one or more indifferent persons under the quality and denomination of arbiters, or arbitrators. See ARBITER and ARBITRATION. Among us, two arbitrators are usually chosen by the...

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

  • AGGREGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AGGREGATION

    Accretion, in Physics, a species of union, whereby several things which have no natural dependence or connection with one another, are collected together, so as in some sense to constitute one. See UNION. Thus, a heap of sand, or a mass of ruins, are...

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

  • ACQUITTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ACQUITTANCE

    ACQUITTANCE, or Quittance, a Release, or Discharge in Writing, of a Sum of Money, or other Duty which ought to be paid or done. See RECEIPT.The Verb Acquit, the Participle Acquitted, and the Noun Acquittal, do also signify a Discharge from an Offence...

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

  • APPLICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/APPLICATION

    in Theology, is particularly used for the Act whereby our Saviour transfers, or makes over to us what he had earned or purchased by his holy Life, and Death. 'Tis by this Application of the Merits of Christ, that we are to be justified; and entitled to...

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

  • ABISHERSINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABISHERSING

    an antient Law-Term, denoting a being free, or exempt, from all Amerciaments for Transgressions of any kind. See AMERCIAMENT. This Word, in a Charter or Grant, gives the Proprietor not only the Forfeitures, and Amerciaments of all others for...

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

  • AMPHITHEATREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMPHITHEATRE

    a spacious Building, either round or oval, having its Area or Arena encompassed with Rows of Seats, rising gradually one over another; with Porticoes both within and outside. See ARENA and ARENA. Among the Ancients, the Amphitheatre was appointed for...

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

  • ADJUDICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADJUDICATION

    the act of adjudging; or of giving anything by sentence, decree, or judgment. See ADJUDGED and JUDGMENT. The word is particularly used for the addition or consigning a thing sold by cant, auction, or the like, to the highest bidder. See AUCTION....

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