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  • ARENAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARENA

    among the Romans, sometimes signified thesame with Circus, or Amphitheatre, viz. a place where thegladiators had their combats. See CIRCUS, AMPHITHEATRE. But, properly speaking, Arena was only the pit or space inthe middle of those places. The Arena was...

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

  • ARMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ARMEN

    in Heraldry, is used in respect of Beasts and Birds of Prey, when their Teeth, Horns, Feet, Beak, Talons, or Tusks, are of a different Colour from the rest—He bears a Cock, or a Falcon, armed, Or, etc. ARMEN

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

  • ARRAYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ARRAY

    in Law,the ranking or ordering a Jury or Inquest of Men impaneled on any Cause. See JURY, INQUEST, etc. The Word may be derived either from the obsolete French Array, Order, or from Raye, a Line—Hence the Verb, to Array a Panel, Ann. 3 Hen. V. etc. that...

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

  • ATAXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATAXY

    Ataxia, a want of order or regularity—The term is chiefly used in medicine, where the order of the critical days, or other phenomena of a disease, is inverted. See CRITICAL. The physicians have frequent recourse to an Ataxy or irregularity of the...

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

  • AUGURhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGUR

    in Antiquity, an officer or minister among the Romans, appointed to observe the chattering and feeding of birds; and by means thereof, form conjectures about future events. See AUGURY. The augurs made a college or community, which at first consisted of...

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

  • ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ABACUS

    among the Antients, was a kind of Cupboard, or Buffet. See BUFFET. In this Sense Livy, describing the Luxury into which the Romans degenerated after the Conquest of Asia, says, They had their Abaci, Beds, &c. plated over with Gold. Dec. IV. Lib. ix. The...

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

  • ABSURDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ABSURD

    Absurdum, a thing that thwarts, or goes contrary to our common Notions and Apprehensions. See ABSURDITY. Thus, a Proposition would be absurd, that should affirm, that two and two make five ; or that should deny 'em to make four. See PROSOSITION. The...

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

  • ACACIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ACACIA

    ACACIA, in Medicine, an inspissated Juice, of a Shrub of the Thorn kind; used as an Astringent. See ASTRINGENT. There are two Kinds, the Vera and Germanica.The Acacia Vera, is brought from the Levant; and supposed to be the Juice of the Pods of a large...

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

  • ACORUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACORUS

    ACORUS, a Medicinal Plant, of the Rush or Flag Kind;frequently confounded by the Ancients, and also by the modern Apothecaries, with the Calamus Odoratus. See CALAMUS.There are two Species of Acorus; the Verus, or true, and the false—They are...

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

  • ALAREShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ALARES

    in Antiquity, are supposed by some Authors to have been a kind of Militia, or Soldiery among the Romans; so called from Ala, a Wing, because of their Lightness and Swiftness in the Combat. Others make them a People of Pannonia: but others, with more...

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

  • ALCADEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ALCADE

    or Alcayde, or Alcaid, in the Spanish Policy, a sort of Judge or Minister of Justice, answering to a Provost. See PROVOST. The Spaniards borrow their Alcade from the Saracen Al-caid. See ALCAID. ALCADE

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • ALCOVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCOVE

    in Building, a part of a Chamber, separated by an Estrade, or Partition of Columns, and other corresponding Ornaments; in which is placed a Bed of State, and sometimes Seats, to entertain Company. The Word is derived from the Spanish Alcoba; and that...

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

  • ARCHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHES

    or Court of Arches, is one of the Archbishop’s courts; to which appeals lie in ecclesiastical matters from all parts of the Province of Canterbury. SeeCourt, Appeal, and Archbishop. This court is thus called, from the arched church andtower of St. Mary...

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

  • ARGENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ARGENT

    in heraldry, signifies the color white, used in the coats of gentlemen, knights, and baronets. See COLOR and WHITE. Barons and all nobles have the white color called Pearl; and sovereign princes have theirs called Luna. Without either this or Or, the...

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

  • ASCITAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCITA

    Antiquity, a Sect or Branch of Montanists, who appeared in the eleventh Century. See MONTANISM. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀσκίτης, a Bag or Bottle. The Ascitae were so called, because they introduced a kind of Bacchanals into their Assemblies,...

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

  • ASSETShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSETS

    in Law,effects sufficient to discharge the burden laid on an executor, or heir, for satisfying the testator’s debts or legacies. See EXECUTOR, HEIR, TESTAMENT, LEGACY, etc. The word is formed of the French assez, enough; in regard whoever charges...

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

  • AVERTAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVERTA

    in our Law Books, properly signify Oxen or Horses used for the Plough; but in a general Sense, any Cattle. When mention is made of one Beast, they say, Quidam equus, vel quidam bos: When of two, or more, they do not say Egui or Bowes, but Averia.

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

  • CHEVALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CHEVAL

    CHEVAL de Frise, a large piece of Timber pierc'd, and travers'd with wooden Spikes, arm'd or pointed with Iron, five or fix Foot long. Its Use is to defend a Passage, slop a Breach, or make a Retrenchment to slop the Cavalry. 'Tis sometimes also...

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

  • ACIDULEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ACIDULE

    ACIDULE, in Natural History, a species of mineral waters which discover a degree of acidity to the taste. See WATER. Acidules are native waters impregnated with particles of some acid mineral, such as Vitriol, Alum, Nitre, or Salt. See WATER. Sometimes...

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

  • ADELINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADELING

    ADELING, or Etheling, from the Saxon Adelan, q. d.Nobilis; a Title of Honour among the English Saxons, properly belonging to the Successor, or Heir Apparent of the Crown. See PRINCE, etc.King Edward the Confessor being without Issue, and intending to...

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