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  • ADOPTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOPTIVE

    Adoptivus, or Adoptivius, a person adopted by another. See ADOPTION. The Emperor Hadrian preferred adoptive children to natural ones; by reason we choose the former, but are obliged to take the latter at random. Adoptive children, among the Romans, were...

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

  • ABORTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABORTIVE

    ABORTIVE, something come before its due time, or before it has arriv'd at its Maturity and Persedion. See ABORTION. F. Jerom Florentius has an express Treatise of the Baptism of Abortives, or abortive Children. His Aim is to shew that an Abortive may,...

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

  • APOSTASYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTASY

    a deserting or abandoning of the true Religion. See RENEGADE. Among the Romanists, it also signifies the forsaking of a religious Order, whereof a Man had made Profession; without a lawful Dispensation. See ORDER, etc. The Ancients distinguished three...

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

  • ASSATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSATION

    the preparing or dressing of Medicaments, or Foods, in their own Juices, without Addition of any foreign Moisture. Assation, in respect of culinary Matters, is more frequently called Roasting; and in Pharmacy, Ustion or Lorrefaction. See DRESSING,...

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

  • APPROVERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROVER

    one who confessing Felony in himself, appealeth or impeacheth another or more of his Accomplices. See APPEAL. He is so called because he must prove what he hath alleged in his Appeal. This Proof should either be by Battle, or by the Country, at the...

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

  • AVELLANEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/AVELLANE

    or Cross Avellane, in Heraldry, a Form of Cross which resembles four Filberds in their Husks or Cases, joined together at the great End. See CROSS. Hence its Name; a Filberd in Latin being Nux Avellana.—Syl. Morgan says, it is this Cross which Ensigns...

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

  • ALLIANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLIANCE

    the Union or Connection of two Persons, or two Families, by means of Marriage; called also Affinity. See MARRIAGE, and AFFINITY. The Law of the Twelve Tables forbids all Alliance between Persons of unequal Rank and Condition. —And in Portugal, we are...

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

  • ACONTIAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACONTIAS

    ACONTIAS, a Name used by some Authors, for a sort of Comet, or Meteor, whose Head appears round or oblong, and its Tail very long and slender, resembling a Javelin.See COMET, and METEOR.It takes its Denomination from a Serpent thus called, frequent in...

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

  • ALLUVIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALLUVION

    Alluvio, in the Civil Law, an Accessior or Accretion made along the Sea-shore, or the Banks of large Rivers, by means of Tempests or Inundations, Accretion, &c. The Civil Law places Alluvio among the lawful means of Acquisition; and defines it to be a...

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

  • ANAPHORAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ANAPHORA

    ANAPHORA, in Rhetoric, a Figure whereby the same Word or Sound is repeated at the Beginning of several Sentences, or Verses. See FIGURE. The Word is Greek, ἀναφορά, signifying bringing back or Repetition. ANAPLEROTICS, in Medicine, such Remedies as fill...

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

  • ADEMPTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADEMPTION

    ADEMPTION, Ademption, in Civil Law, refers to the revocation of a Grant, Donation, or the like."The Ademption of a Legacy may be either Express; as when the Testator declares in a formal manner that he revokes what he had bequeathed: Or Tacit, as when...

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

  • ANNEALINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNEALING

    or as it is popularly called Nealing. See NEALING. One fine use of Silver, says Mr. Boyle, was only discovered since the Art of Annealing upon Glass came to be practiced. For prepared Silver, or even the crude Metal, being burnt on a Glass Plate, will...

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

  • ABECEDARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ABECEDARY

    or ABECEDARIAN, some thing Alphabetical, or belonging to the Alphabet. See ALPHABET. Among the Antients, the Term Abecedarius was peculiarly applied to those Compositions wherein the initial Letters of each Strophe, or some times even of each Verse,...

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

  • ARBITRARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARBITRARY

    something left to the choice and determination of men; not fixed and settled by any positive law or injunction. See LAW, LIBERTY, etc. The punishment for such a crime is arbitrary—arbitrary fines or mulcts are usually called amercements. See AMER...

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

  • ABSURDITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ABSURDITY

    ABSURDITY, Absurdities, is a kind of Error, or Offense against some evident, and generally allowed Truths or Principle. See ERROR, MAXIM, &c. The greatest of all Absurdities is the Contradiction. See CONTRADICTION. The Schoolmen make two Species of...

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

  • ADVENTUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVENTURE

    an extraordinary and surprising enterprise or accident, either real or fictitious. See FABLE. Novels, romances, etc. are chiefly taken up in relating the adventures of cavaliers, lovers, etc. See NOVEL and ROMANCE. The word is French and literally...

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

  • ACHILLEIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACHILLEIS

    ACHILLEIS, or Achilleid, a celebrated Poem of Statius, wherein he proposed to deliver the whole Life and Actions of that Hero. See POEM. It only takes in his Infancy, the Poet being prevented from proceeding, by Death. The Achilleid is of the Heroic or...

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

  • AUGUSTINShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUGUSTINS

    an order of religious; thus called from St. Augustin, whose rule they observe. See ORDER and RELIGIOUS. The Augustins, popularly also called Austin Fryars, were originally hermits, whom Pope Alexander IV first congregated into one body, under their...

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

  • AVE-MARIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVE-MARIA

    or Ave-Mary, the Angel Gabriel's Salutation of the Virgin, at his bringing the Tidings of the Incarnation; thus called, as beginning with those Words, Ave Maria, Hail Mary. See VIRGIN, ANNUNCIATION, etc. The Ave-Mary is a Prayer or Formula of Devotion...

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

  • ANTARCTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTARCTIC

    or Antarctic, Pole, the Southern Pole, or End of the Earth’s Axis; so called because it is opposite to the Arctic or North Pole. See POLE, SOUTH, ARCTIC, etc. The Stars near the Antarctic Pole never appear above our Horizon. See STAR, HORIZON, etc. The...

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