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  • ASTRINGENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ASTRINGENTS

    ASTRINGENTIA, in Medicine, binding Remedies; or such as have the Power of contracting the Parts, and diminishing the Pores thereof. See MEDICINE. Astringents act either by the Asperity of their Particles, whereby they corrugate the Membranes, and make...

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

  • ASPERIFOLIÆhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPERIFOLIÆ

    Botany, one of the Divisions or Kinds of Plants. See PLANT. The Characters of the Asperifolious Kind, are, that the Leaves stand alternately, or without any certain Order on the Stalks: The Flowers are monopetalous, but have the Margin cut into five...

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

  • APPELLATIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/APPELLATIVE

    or Noun Appellative, in Grammar, a common Name; or a Name which belongs, or is applicable to all things of that kind. See NAME and NOUN. Such are the Names, Man, Angel, Horse, Plant, Tree, etc. Appellatives stand opposed to proper Names, which belong...

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

  • ANALEPTICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANALEPTICKS

    in Medicine, Restoratives; or Remedies proper to restore the Body, when wasted or emaciated, either by the Continuance of a Disease, or the Want of Food. See RESTORATIVE. The Word is Greek, Ἀναληπτικά (Analeptika), derived from Ἀναλαμβάνω (Analambano),...

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

  • ADOLESCENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOLESCENCE

    Adolescencia, the state of youth;or that period of a person's age commencing from his infancy, and terminating at his full growth. See AGE. The state of Adolescence lasts so long as the fibers continue to grow, either in magnitude or firmness. See...

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

  • ACATALEPSIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACATALEPSIA

    ACATALEPSIA, Acatalepsy, in Philosophy, Incomprehensibleness; or the Impossibility of comprehending or conceiving a thing. See COMPREHENSION. The Pyrrhonians and Sceptics, and even the Ancient Academy, asserted an absolute Acatalepsia: All human...

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

  • ALEXANDRINEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ALEXANDRINE

    or Alexandrian, in Poetry, the Name of a kind of Verse, which consists of twelve and thirteen Syllables alternately; the rest or Pause being always on the sixth Syllable. See VERSE. It is said to have taken its Name from a Poem on the Life of Alexander,...

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

  • ABSTERGENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSTERGENTS

    or Abstersive Medicines, a Class of Remedies, whose Effect is to abrade and wipe away such mucous Particles as they meet in their Passage ; and thus cleanse the Parts of viscid or impure Adhesions, and carry off the morbid Matter of Wounds, Ulcers, &c....

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

  • ATTENUATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTENUATION

    the act of attenuating; that is, of making any fluid thinner, and less consistent than it was before. See FLUID. The word is compounded of the Latin ad; and tenuis, thin, slender, weak. Attenuation is defined more generally by Chauvin, the dividing or...

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

  • ARMINIANISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMINIANISM

    the Doctrine of Arminius, a celebrated Professor in the University of Leiden; and of the Arminians, a Sect which follow him. The principal Article wherein the Arminians differ from the other Reformed, consists in this, that thinking the Doctrines of...

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

  • ALIQUOT Parthttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALIQUOT%20Part

    Part, is such Part of any Number, or Quantity, as will exactly measure it, without any Remainder.—Or, it is a Part, which being taken a certain Number of times, becomes equal to the Whole, or Integer. See PART, &c. Thus, 3 is an Aliquot Part of 12;...

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

  • ANNIHILATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIHILATION

    the Act of reducing a Substance into Nothing; or of totally destroying and taking away its Existence. See SUBSTANCE and EXISTENCE. Annihilation stands opposed to Creation: The one supposes something made out of nothing, the other nothing made out of...

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

  • ACCUMULATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCUMULATION

    ACCUMULATION, the act of heaping or amassing several things together. The word is compounded of ad and cumulus, "heap."The lawyers speak of an accumulation of titles; as, when a person claims lands, a benefice, or the like, in virtue of several titles...

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

  • APOLOGETICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOLOGETICAL

    Ἀπολογητικός, something said, or written by way of Excuse, or Apology for any Action, or Person. See APOLOGY. The Apologetic of Tertullian is a Work full of Strength and Spirit; such as in all respects became the Character of that Father—— He there...

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

  • ACCOUTREMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOUTREMENT

    ACCOUTREMENT, an ancient term used for an habillement; or a part of the apparatus and furniture of a soldier, knight, or even a gentleman. See HABILLEMENT. The word is French, formed from the ancient German, Kustler. In some cathedrals in France, e.g....

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

  • ARCHIPERACITAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHIPERACITA

    or ARCHIPHERACITA, an officer in the Jewish academies. See ACADEMY. The Archiperacita was not the same with the Archisynagogus, as Grotius and others have mistakenly imagined, but rather the chief or principal of those appointed toread, explain, and...

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

  • APOCRISIARIUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/APOCRISIARIUS

    or Apocrisiarius, in Antiquity, an Officer appointed to carry or deliver the Messages, Orders, and Answers of a Prince——He afterwards became his Chancellor, and kept the Seal. In the later Latin we sometimes meet with Asecretarius, Secretary, for...

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

  • ÆCHMALOTARCHAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ÆCHMALOTARCHA

    in Antiquity, a Greek Term, signifying, Chief or Leader of the Captives. The Jews who refused to follow Zerubbabel, and return with him to Jerusalem, after the Babylonish Captivity; created an Aechmalotarcha, to govern them.—Not that the Jews themselves...

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

  • AGGLUTINATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGGLUTINATION

    literally, denotes the act of joining, or cementing two bodies together, by means of a proper Gluten, or Glue. See CEMENT, GLUE, &c. In Medicine, the term is peculiarly used for the addition of new substance, or the giving a greater consistency to the...

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

  • AUNCEL-WEIGHThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUNCEL-WEIGHT

    quasi, Handled-Weight, is a kind of Balance, consisting of Scales hanging on Hooks fastened at each End of a Beam or Staff, which a Man lifts up on his Hand or Fore-finger, and so discovers the Equality or Difference between the Weight and the Thing...

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