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  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    the Celestial Bodies, their Magnitudes, Motions, Distances, Periods, Eclipses, etc. See MATHEMATICS. Some understand the Word Astronomy in a more extensive Sense; including under it the Theory of the Universe, and the primary Laws of Nature: In which...

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

  • ASPHALTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALTOS

    or Asphaltum,a solid, brittle, black, inflammable, bituminous Substance, resembling Pitch, brought from India; whence it is also called Jewish Pitch. See PITCH. The Asphaltos belongs to the Class of Bitumens; and is the furthest matured and concocted of...

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

  • ATTRIBUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ATTRIBUTE

    ATTRIBUTUM, in Philosophy, a Property which agrees to some Person, or Thing; or a Quality, which determines something to be after a certain Manner. See PROPERTY and QUALITY. Thus, Understanding is an Attribute of Mind; Figure, an Attribute of Body, etc....

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

  • ANTICHRISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICHRIST

    or Antichrist, Antichristus, among Divines, etc., a Tyrant who is to reign on Earth, toward the end of the World; for the ultimate Proof of the Elect; and to give a shining Instance of the Divine Vengeance, before the last Judgment. The Word is...

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

  • APOTHEOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/APOTHEOSIS

    in Antiquity, a Heathen Ceremony, whereby their Emperors and great Men were placed among the Gods. See GOD. After the Apotheosis, which they also called Deification and Consecration; Temples and Altars were erected to the new Deity, and Sacrifices,...

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

  • ANTIPHRASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPHRASIS

    a sort of figurative Speech which has a contrary meaning to what it carries in appearance. Or, a kind of Irony, wherein we say one thing and mean the contrary. See FIGURE and IRONY. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀντί and φράσις, of φράζω, I speak....

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

  • AGRICULTUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGRICULTURE

    the Art of tilling or cultivating the Earth, in order to render it fertile, and make it bear Plants, Trees, Fruits, &c. See EARTH, SOIL, CULTURE, PLANT, FRUIT, SEED, &c. The principal and most general Operations in Agriculture are Manuring, Ploughing,...

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

  • ASTRONOMICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMICAL

    to 1601. All the observations hitherto rehearsed, together with Tycho’s apparatus of instruments, are contained in the Historia Celestis, published in 1672, by order of Emperor Leopold. Soon after, Hevelius, with a still more magnificent and...

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

  • APPORTIONMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/APPORTIONMENT

    APPORTIONMENT, in Law, a dividing of a Rent into two Parts or Portions, according as the Land whence it issues, is divided among two, or more. See RENT, DIVISION, PARTITION, etc. Thus if a Man, having a Rent-Service issuing out of Land, purchase a part...

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

  • ACCOMMODATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCOMMODATION

    of a similar thing referred thereto. A Prophecy of Scripture is said to be fulfilled various ways;Properly, as when a thing foretold comes to pass; and Improperly, or by way of Accommodation, when an Event happens to any Place or People, like to what...

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

  • APPARENT MAGNITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPARENT%20MAGNITUDE

    MAGNITUDE or Diameter of the Sun, Moon, or any Planet, is the Quantity of the Angle that their Discs appear under, to an Observer on the Surface of the Earth. The apparent Diameters of the Celestial Luminaries are subject to some Diversity. That of the...

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

  • ASCENSIONAL DIFFERENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSIONAL%20DIFFERENCE

    DIFFERENCE, is the Difference between the Right and Oblique Ascension. See ASCENSION. Or it is the Space of Time which the Sun rises or sets before or after six of the Clock. To find the Ascensional Difference trigonometrically, having the Latitude of...

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

  • Analyticshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/analytics

    ANALYTICS, or the Resolution of PROBLEMS by Species or Symbolical Expressions : Rules or Operations hereof, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, &c. Application thereof, in Combinations, Permutations, Magic Squares, Chances, Gaming, &c. Series,...

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  • ABBEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBEY

    or ABBY, a Monastery, or Religious House, govern'd by an Abbot, or Abbess. See ABBOT, &c. Abbies disser from Priories, in that the one are under the Direction of an Abbot, and the other of a Prior : but Abbot and Prior (we mean a Prior Conventual) are...

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

  • ACREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACRE

    ACRE, a Quantity of Land, containing four square Roods, or 160 square Poles. See MEASURE; see also ROOD, and PERCH.By a Statute of 31 Eliz. it is ordained, That if any Man erect a new Cottage, he shall add four Acres of Land to it.See COTTAGE.To find...

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

  • AILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AILE

    in law, a writ which lies where the grandfather, or great grandfather called Befaile, was seized of lands or tenements in fee-simple, on the day he died; and a stranger abates or enters the same day, and dispossesses the heir. The word is formed from...

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

  • AMBIThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/AMBIT

    of a Figure, in Geometry, is the Perimeter, Circumference, or Sum of all the bounding or encompassing Lines, that constitute or include it. See PERIMETER, CIRCUMFERENCE, etc. AMBIT

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

  • AMENDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AMEND

    or Amende, in the French Customs, a Mulet, or pecuniary Punishment, imposed by a Sentence of the Judge; for any Crime, false Prosecution, or groundless Appeal. See MURDER, PUNISHMENT, APPEAL, etc. AMEND

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

  • AMMIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/AMMI

    or Semen Ammeos, a kind of aromatic Seed, of considerable use in Medicine; the Produce of a Plant of the same Name. The Seed is brought from the Levant: It is found to contain a great deal of essential Oil, and volatile Salt; and to be attenuating,...

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

  • ANUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANUS

    in Medicine, the Extremity of the Intestine Rectum; or the Orifice of the Fundament. See RECTUM and FUNDAMENT. Fistulas in Ano are very difficult to Cure. See FISTULA. The Philistines sent golden Anuses back with the Ark, to be cured of a Disease which...

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