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  • AGGRESSORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGGRESSOR

    AGGRESSOR, in Law, he, of two contending parties, who makes the first assault, or attack; or who began the quarrel, encounter, or difference.—In criminal matters, it is first enquired who was the aggressor. See ATTACK, &c. AGGRESSOR

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

  • APOPHYSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/APOPHYSIS

    in Anatomy, a Process or Protuberance of a Bone; being a part eminent or jutting out beyond the rest. See BONE, PROCESS, etc. Such are the Eminences of the Vertebrae, the Scapula, Thigh-bone, etc. See VERTEBRA, SCAPULA, etc. Apophyses Olfactoriae, are...

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

  • ACQUITTALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACQUITTAL

    ACQUITTAL, a Discharge, Deliverance, or setting free of a Person from the Guilt or Suspicion of an Offence.The like Discharge in Civil Concerns, is called an Acquittance.See ACQUITTANCE. Acquittal is of two Kinds; in Law, and in Fact.When two are...

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

  • APPRENTICEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPRENTICE

    one who is bound by Covenant to serve a Tradesman, or Artificer a certain Time; usually seven Years; upon Condition of the Master’s instructing him in his Art or Mystery. See TRADE, COVENANT, AGE, etc. Sir Thomas Smith says, that Apprentices are a kind...

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

  • ARCHPRIESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHPRIEST

    same diocese; from which time they were called deans. See DEAN. In the ninth century, they distinguished two kinds of cures or parishes; the smaller, governed by simple priests,and the baptismal churches, by archpresbyters, who, beside the immediate...

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

  • ACROSPIREDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACROSPIRED

    ACROSPIRED is used in respect to barley; which, in the operation of making malt, is apt, after coming, or sprouting at the lower, or root-end, to become Acrospired, i.e. to sprout also at the upper, or blade-end. See MALT. ACROSPIRED

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

  • ANAGOGICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGOGICAL

    is the first, and the natural Sense. The mystical Sense is founded on the natural Sense, from whence it is taken by Analogy or Comparison, by Similitude or Resemblance of one thing to another; and is divided into several kinds. See MYSTICAL. Where it...

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

  • ACCESSIBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSIBLE

    ACCESSIBLE, something that may be approached; or that access may be had to. See ACCESS and APPROACH. Such a place, a fortress, is accessible from the seaward, i.e., the passage to it is practicable. See FORTIFICATION and FORTIFIED PLACE. Accessible...

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

  • ATTENUANTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTENUANTS

    or ATTENUATING MEDICINES, such as subtilize or break the humours into finer parts; and thus dispose them for motion, circulation, excretion, etc. See ATTENUATION and HUMOUR. Attenuants stand opposed to thickners, or medicines which condense, inspissate,...

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

  • AUGUSTALIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGUSTALIS

    1°. to those who led the first ranks of an army; 2°. to certain magistrates in cities; 3°. to all the officers of the Emperor’s palace. The governor or prefect of Egypt is particularly called Augustalis, or Praefectus Augustalis; as being first...

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

  • ABSORBENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSORBENTS

    ABSORBENTS, in Medicine, Remedies which by the Softness or Porosity of their component Parts, become proper to sheath the Asperities of sharp pungent Humors ; or to imbibe or dry away, as with a Sponge, superfluous Moistures. Such are the Testaceous...

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

  • ATLANTIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIDES

    ATLANTIDES, among the Poets See VERGILIUS. ATLAS, in Architecture is a Name given to those Figures, or Half-Figures of Men, so much used instead of Columns, or Pilasters; to support any Member of Architecture, as a Balcony, or the like. See COLUMN,...

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

  • ACCIDENTALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCIDENTAL

    ACCIDENTAL means something of the nature of an accident, or that is not essential to its subject but indifferent thereto. See ACCIDENT and ESSENTIAL. Thus, whiteness is accidental to marble, and heat to iron. Accidental point, in perspective, is a...

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

  • AGEMOGLANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGEMOGLANS

    or Azamoglans, Children of Tribute raised every three Years by the grand Seignior, among the Christians whom he tolerates in his Dominions.The Commissioners appointed for this Levy, take them by force, even out of the Houses of Christians; always...

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

  • ATAMADULEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATAMADULET

    ATAMADULET, the first Minister in the Persian Empire. See MINISTER. The Atamadulet, or, as Tavernier writes it, Athematdoulet; and Sanfon, Etmadaulet, is much the same with the Grand Vizier in Turkey, excepting that he has not the Command of the Army,...

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

  • ATTRIBUTEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ATTRIBUTES

    in Logic, is an Epithet given to any Subject; Or it is any predicate thereof; or whatever may be affirmed or denied of any thing. See SUBJECT, PREDICATE, etc. Every Proposition consists of a Subject, an Attribute, and a Conjunctive Particle. See...

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

  • ABSINTHIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/absinthium

    ABSINTHIUM, Wormwood, a Medicinal Plant, of considerable Efficacy in quality of a Bitter and Stomachic. See STOMACHIC, &c. There are divers Kinds hereof enumerated by Botanists; at least 30. Those which obtain in Medicine, are, 1°, the Roman or small,...

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

  • ABSYNTHIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSYNTHIUM

    ABSYNTHIUM, Wormwood, a Medicinal Plant, of considerable Efficacy in quality of a Bitter and Stomachic. See STOMACHIC, &c. There are divers Kinds hereof enumerated by Botanists; at least 30. Those which obtain in Medicine, are, 1°, the Roman or small,...

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

  • APONEUROSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APONEUROSIS

    among Anatomists, the spreading or Expansion of a Nerve, or Tendon, breadth-wise; in the manner of a Membrane. See NERVE and TENDON. It sometimes also signifies the cutting off of a Nerve or Tendon. And in some Writers, we find it used for a Tendon...

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

  • ANACREONTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ANACREONTIC

    in the Greek and Latin Poetry, something invented by Anacreon; or in the Manner and Taste of Anacreon. Anacreon, a Poet of Teios, who lived upwards of 400 Years before Christ, was famous for the Delicacy of his Wit; and the exquisite, yet easy and...

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