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  • ASSA-FOETIDAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSA-FOETIDA

    or Asa-Foetida, a Gum or Resin,brought from the East-Indies, of a brownish Colour, a sharp Taste, and a very strong, offensive Smell; whence it is also called Stercus Diaboli, or Devil’s Dirt. It is not known from what Plant this Gum is procured; all...

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

  • ADVENTITIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVENTITIOUS

    something accruing or befalling a person or thing from without. See ACCESSION, etc.Thus, Adventitious Matter, is such matter as does not properly belong to any body, but is casually joined to it.See ACCRETION, APPUNCTION, etc. Adventitious, in Civil...

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

  • ASSIMILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIMILATION

    ASSIMILATIO,in Physics, is properly a Motion whereby Bodies convert other duly disposed Bodies, into a Nature like, or homogeneous to their own. See MOTION, BODY, etc. Some Philosophers call it, the Motion of Multiplication, meaning, that Bodies are...

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

  • APPROPRIATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROPRIATION

    the Act of appropriating, or applying a Church-Benefice, which of its own Nature is jus divini, and no Person’s Patrimony, to the proper and perpetual Use of some Religious Community. See APPROPRIATE. Appropriation is where the Advowson of a Parsonage...

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

  • AMENDE Honorablehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMENDE%20Honorable

    Honorable, is an afflictive Punishment, importing, or carrying with it a Note of Infamy.—As, when the Delinquent is condemned to go naked to the Shirt, a Torch in his Hand, and a Rope about his Neck, into a Church or Auditorium; and beg pardon of God,...

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

  • ADDUCENT Muscleshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDUCENT%20Muscles

    ADDUCENT Muscles, or Adductors, are those which bring forward, close, or draw together, the Parts of the Body whereto they are annexed. See MUSCLE.The Word is compounded of ad, to, and duco, I draw, or bring to.Adductors stand opposed to Abducentes or...

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

  • ÆSTIMATIO Capitishttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ÆSTIMATIO%20Capitis

    etc.King Athelstan, in a great Assembly held at Exeter, declared what Mulcts were to be paid pro æstimatione capitis, for Offences committed against several Persons according to their degrees; the Estimation of the King’s Head to be 30000 Thrymsas; of...

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

  • AGAThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AGAT

    Acuarius, in natural history, a precious stone, partly transparent, and partly opaque. See PRECIOUS STONE, and GEM. The first agats were said to have been found in Sicily, along the banks of the river Achares; whence, some will have it, the name is...

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

  • ALEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALE

    a popular beverage drink, made from malt. See MALT, and DRINK. For the method of brewing ale, see Brewing. Ale is chiefly distinguished from beer, another potable liquor made from the same ingredients, by the quantity of hops used therein; which is...

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

  • ADVENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ADVENT

    Adventurus, in the calendar, the time immediately preceding Christmas; anciently employed in pious preparation for the Adventus, or coming on, of the Feast of the Nativity. See NATIVITY, etc. Advent includes four Sundays or weeks; commencing either from...

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

  • ANANAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANANAS

    in Natural History, by some called Nanas, by others Guaynabo, and by us popularly the Pine-Apple on account of the resemblance it bears to the Cones of Pines or Firs; is a fine Indian Fruit, which grows on a Plant like the Fig-tree, and of the Size of...

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

  • ANCYLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANCYLE

    or Ancile, in Antiquity, a little Buckler, which fell, as it is said, from Heaven, upon Numa Pompilius; at the same time that a Voice was heard, which declared that Rome should be Mistress of the World, while she preserved that Buckler. See BUCKLER.—The...

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

  • ANNALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNALS

    Annales, a historical Account of the Affairs of a State, digested in order of Years; see YEAR. The difference between Annals and History is variously assigned by various Authors—Some say that History is properly a Recital of Things which the Author has...

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

  • ANNUALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUAL

    something which returns every Year, or closes at the end of the Year. See YEAR. Thus we say an annual or yearly Feast, Office, Commission, Rent, etc. See ANNIVERSARY. The Annual Motion of the Earth see proved under the article EARTH. Annual is sometimes...

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

  • ASIENTOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASIENTO

    Matters of Commerce, a Contract or Convention between the King of Spain and other Powers, for furnishing the Spanish Dominions in America, with Negro Slaves. See NEGRO, etc. The Term is originally Spanish, and signifies a Contract: Accordingly, the...

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

  • ACANTHUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ACANTHUS

    ACANTHUS, in Architecture, an Ornament in the Corinthian and Composite Orders; being the Representation of the Leaves of an Acanaceous Plant, in the Capitals thereof.See CAPITAL, and LEAVES. It takes its Name from δKανθος, the Name given the Plant...

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

  • AMMONIAChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMMONIAC

    Ammoniac; or, as it is sometimes, tho improperly, called, Armmoniac, is a kind of Gum, brought from the East Indies; supposed to ooze from an umbelliferous Plant. See GUM. It ought to be in dry Drops, white within, yellowish without, easily fusible,...

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

  • ABELIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABELIANS

    ABELONIANS, ABELOITES, a Sect of Hereticks in Africa, not far from Hippo, cotemporary with S. Augustin. See HERETICS. What distinguish'd 'em, was, that they made it a Duty to marry, and yet liv'd with their Wives in a prosess'd Continence, without...

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

  • AMOMODUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMOMODUM

    This Fruit is brought from the East Indies; and makes part of the Composition of Treacle; and is thought to be the Sison, or Sizon of the Ancients. Besides this, there is likewise another paler Seed, which bears the Name, Amomium; but neither of them...

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

  • ASTROITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ASTROITES

    or Lapis Astroites, in Natural History, a Kind of figured Stone, found in divers Parts, and particularly in the North of England. See FIGURED-STONE. The Form thereof is very uniform and regular; consisting of several thin pentagonal Joints set one over...

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