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  • ACRASIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACRASIA

    ACRASIA, ἀκρασία, is used by some Writers in Physic, for the Excess or Predominancy of one Quality above another ; either in a Mixture, or in the Constitution of a human Body. See CRASIS, TEMPERAMENT, CONSTITUTION. ACRASIA

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

  • ÆRARIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆRARIUM

    the public Treasury of a State or People. See TREASURY. The Temple of Saturn at Rome, being the great Treasury of the city, was first called Aerarium, from Aes, Brass; that being the only Money in use before the Year of Rome 485. Pliny, L. II. c, 33....

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

  • ARABISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABISM

    Ananismus, an idiom or manner of speaking peculiar to the Arabs, or the Arabic language. See IDIOM and ARABIC. R. Martiz maintains that the letter 'aleph' sometimes expresses an oath, in Hebrew as well as in Arabic: Abenezra, a perfect master of Arabic,...

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

  • ARBALEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARBALET

    or Balista, a kind of weapon, vulgarly called a crossbow. See HARQUEBUS. It consists of a steel bow, set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger; and is bent with a piece of iron fitted for that purpose. It serves to throw bullets,...

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

  • ARCANUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCANUM

    literally signifies a secret; and is therefore very pertinently applied by quacks and impostors in medicine, who conceal their ignorance and fraud under a pretence of secrecy. Hence legions of arcana. There are also standing officinal compositions,...

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

  • ALGAROThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALGAROT

    or Algaroth, in the Arabian Chemistry, a Powder prepared of Butter of Antimony; being in reality no more than the Regulus of that Mineral, dissolved in Acids, and separated again by means of several Lotions with lukewarm Water, which imbibes those...

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

  • ARGILLAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARGILLA

    or Argil, a white earth, like chalk, but more brittle; of some use in physic. See EARTH, CHALK, etc. The word is sometimes also used for potter's earth, or clay. See POTTERY, CLAY, etc. ARGILLA

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

  • ALIMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ALIMENT

    Alimentum, Food, in a physical Sense, is whatever may be dissolved and turned into Chyle, by the Liquor of the Stomach, or the Natural Heat; so as to be afterwards converted into Blood, for augmenting the Body, or repairing the continual Expense of...

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

  • ALLEGROhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/phonics/ALLEGRO

    in Music, a Word used by the Italians to denote one of the six Distinctions of Time. See TIME. Allegro expresses a very quick Motion, the quickest of all excepting Presto. The usual six Distinctions succeed each other in the following Order: Grave,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Phonics - Music

  • ALMONRYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMONRY

    or Aumry, the Office or Lodgings of the Almoner; also the Place where the Alms are given. ALMONRY

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

  • ARPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARPAGUS

    in ancient inscriptions, signifies a child who died in the cradle. The Romans made no funerals for their Arpagi—They neither burnt their bodies, nor made tombs, monuments, or epitaphs for them; which occasioned Juvenal to say,—Terra clauditur infansVel...

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

  • ARRAIGNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ARRAIGN

    or Arrain, in law, signifies to set a thing in order, or in its place. See ARRANGEMENT. Thus, he is said to arraign a writ of novel disseisin, who prepares and fits it for trial before the justices of the circuit. In this sense Littleton says, the...

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

  • AXUNGIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXUNGIA

    and moistest of any in the bodies of animals. See FAT. It is different from lard, which is a firm fat; and from suet leaf, or adeps, which is a kind of dry fat. The Latins distinguish fat into pinguedo, called also axungia; and adeps, or sebum; but many...

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

  • AMALGAMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAM

    or Amalgama, in Chemistry, a Mass of Mercury, united and incorporated with a Metal. See MERCURY, and METAL. The Amalgam of Mercury with Lead, is a soft, friable Substance, of a Silver Colour. See LEAD. By washing and grinding this Amalgam with fair warm...

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

  • AMBITUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBITUS

    among the ancient Romans, signified the Act of suing, or making Interest for Offices. The Candidates, in this Case, went about the City; and into all public Places, and Assemblies, to beg Voices; which was called Ambitus; am, in the ancient Latin,...

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

  • AMNESTYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMNESTY

    or Amnistry, a General Pardon, which a Prince grants to his Subjects, by a Treaty, or Edict; wherein he declares that he forgets and annuls all that is past, and promises not to make any farther Inquiry into the same. See PARDON. Such Amnesties are...

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

  • ABASINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/navigation/ABASING

    ABASING, literally denotes the taking a thing down, or bringing it lower. In this Sense the Word is us'd at Sea ; where, to abase a Flag, is to lower, or take it in, as a Token of Submission and Inferiority. See FLAG. By an Ordonnance of Philip II....

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

  • ANCONEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ANCONES

    in Architecture, are the Corners or Quoins of Walls, Cross Beams, or Rafters. See QUOIN, &c. ANCONES

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

  • ANGARIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ANGARIA

    a Term in Law, signifying any troublesome, or vexatious Duty or Service, paid by the Tenant to the Lord.—The Word is formed of the French Angarie, Personal Service; that which a Man is bound to perform in his own Person.—Prestationes Angariarum &...

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

  • ANGULARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGULAR

    something that relates to, or hath, Angles. See ANGLE. Angular Objects at a distance appear round; the little Inequalities disappearing at a much less distance than the Bulk of the Body. See VISION. Angular Motion, is a compound kind of Motion, wherein...

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