Cyclopædia
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ADMEASUREMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMEASUREMENT
Admensuratio, a writ which lies for bringing those to reason, or mediocrity, that usurp more than their share. See WRIT. This writ lies in two cases; the one termed admeasurement of dower, Admensuratio Doris, where the widow of the deceased holds more...
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ADMINISTRATORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADMINISTRATOR
ADMINISTRATOR, in law, is the person to whom the ordinary commits the administration of the goods of a dead man, in default of an executor. See ADMINISTRATION, WILL, EXECUTOR, etc. An action lies for or against an Administrator, as for an Executor; and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALIQUANT Parthttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALIQUANT%20Part
Part, is that which will not measure or divide any Number exactly, but some Remainder will still be left—Or, an Aliquant Part, is that which being taken any Number of times, is always either greater or lesser than the Whole. See PART, MEASURE, &c. A...
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AURICULA JUDAEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURICULA%20JUDAE
JUDAE, or Jew's Ear, a kind of Fungus or Mushroom, resembling in Figure, a human Ear. See FUNGUS and MUSHROOM. It grows on old Elder Trees, which is the Tree whereon, 'tis pretended, Judas hanged himself; which has given occasion to the Name. This...
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AECHMALOTARCHAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AECHMALOTARCHA
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...
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AURUM POTABILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURUM%20POTABILE
POTABILE, potable gold, is a composition made of gold, by reducing it, without any corrosive, into a gum, or substance like honey, of the colour of blood; which gum steeped in spirit of wine, acquires a ruby-colour, and is called tincture of gold. An...
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ACCOMPLISHMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOMPLISHMENT
ACCOMPLISHMENT, the entire Execution, Achievement, or fulfilling of something proposed, or undertaken. The Accomplishment of the Prophecies of the Old Testament, in the Person of our Saviour, is the great mark of his being the Messiah. See PROPHECY....
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ASCENDING SIGNShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENDING%20SIGNS
SIGNS,among Astrologers, are those which are upon their Ascent or Rise; from the Nadir or lowest Part of the Heavens, to the Zenith or highest. See Sign, Zenith, Nadir, etc.
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AMITTERE ZEGEM TERREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AMITTERE%20ZEGEM%20TERRE
ZEGEM TERRE, a Law-Phrase, signifying the Forfeiture of the Right of swearing in any Court or Cause; or to become infamous. See LAW. This is the Punishment of a Champion overcome, or yielding in the Combat; of Jurors found guilty in a Writ of Attaint;...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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Terminum qui praeterit, is a writ of entry, which lies where a man, having leased lands or tenements for term of life, or years, is, after the term expired, held from them by the tenant, or other stranger who enjoys the same, and deforces the lessor....
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ATTACHIAMENTA BONORUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTACHIAMENTA%20BONORUM
BONORUM, in our ancient law books, denotes a distress taken upon the goods or chattels of any person, sued for personal estate, or debt, by the legal attachiators or bailiffs, as a security to answer the action.
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Legal Notice and Privacy Policyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/legal-notice-and-privacy-policy
Website Publisher This website is a personal, non-commercial website. In accordance with the legislation applicable to websites published on a non-commercial basis, the publisher wishes to remain anonymous. The publisher's contact details have been...
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ARIEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARIES
Places besieged. See MACHINE. Of this there were two kinds; the one rude and simple, the other artificial and compound. The former seems to have been no more than a great Beam, which the Soldiers bore in their Arms, and with one End of it, by main force...
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ARCHONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARCHON
of those; and Creon, of these. The occasion of their institution was this: Codrus, king of Athens, having devoted himself for the good of his people, in the war with the Heraclidae; his sons, Medon and Nileus, disputed the crown between them: The...
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AVERNIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVERNI
among the ancient Naturalists, certain Lakes, Grottoes, and other Places which infect the Air with poisonous Steams or Vapours; called also Mephites. See MEPHITES, AIR, POISON, etc. The Word is Latin, formed of the Greek privative, α, and ὄρνις, Bird;...
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AZYMUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZYMUS
something not fermented, or that is without leaven. See FERMENT and LEAVEN. The term azymus is much used in the disputes betwixt those of the Greek and Romish Church; the latter of whom contend, that the bread in the mass ought to be azymus, unleavened,...
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ALCAICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ALCAICKS
in the ancient Poetry, a Name common to several Kinds of Verses; thus called from the Poet Alcaeus, the Inventor thereof. See VERSE. The first Species of Alcaicks, consists of two Dactyls and two Trochees: As, Exilium impositura cymbae.There is another...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARIANISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARIANISM
or Arianism,an ancient Heresy in the Church, broached by Arius, in the beginning of the fourth Century. See ARIAN. He denied that the Son was God consubstantial and coequal with the Father. He owned that the Son was the Word, but denied that Word to...
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AFFINITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFINITY
Affinitas, an Alliance, or Relation made between two Families, by Marriage. See ALLIANCE, and MARRIAGE. In this Sense, the Word stands contradistinguished to Consanguinity; which is a Relation by Blood. See CONSANGUINITY. In the Mosaical Law, there are...
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ANALYTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALYTIC
Analytical, something that belongs to, or partakes of the Nature of Analysis. See ANALYSIS. Thus, we say, an Analytical Demonstration; Analytical Enquiry; Analytical Table, or Scheme; Analytic Method, etc. See METHOD. The Analytic Method stands opposed...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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