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  • ANIMATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMATE

    Animare, something endued with Life or a living Soul. See LIFE and SOUL. Thus, in Mechanics, animate Power is used to denote a Man or Brute; in contradistinction to inanimate ones, as Springs, Weights, etc. See POWER, etc. ANIMATE

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

  • ABSCESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSCESS

    Medicine and Chirurgery, a Tumor arising on divers Parts of the Body, and tending to Suppuration. See TUMOR, SUPPURATION, &c. Abscesses arise from Colledions of peccant Humours in the internal Parts of the Body; and are also called Imposthumes.See...

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

  • ARTERIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTERIAL

    or Arterious,in Anatomy, something that relates to the Arteries. See ARTERY. The arterial Blood is supposed more warm, florid, and spirituous than the venal. See BLOOD. The Ancients gave the Name Vena Arteriosa, to the Tube or Canal whereby the Blood...

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

  • ATTICISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTICISM

    Atticismus, a short, concise expression or manner of speaking; thus called from the people of Attica, or Athens, who abounded therein. See STYLE and LACONIC.

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

  • ATTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTITUDE

    in painting and sculpture, the posture of a figure, or statue; or the disposition of its parts, by which we discover the action it is engaged in, and the very sentiment supposed to be in its mind. See FIGURE, STATUE, and ACTION. The representing of...

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

  • ARÆOTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ARÆOTICS

    or Anagorics, in medicine, such remedies as tend to open the pores of the skin, and render them large enough for the morbid matter’s being carried off by sweat or insensible perspiration. See PORE, SWEAT, PERSPIRATION, etc. To the class of Aræotics...

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

  • AERARIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AERARIUM

    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

  • AGRESSEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/AGRESSES

    or Ogresses, in Heraldry, are the same as Pellets or Balls. See OGRESSE. AGRESSES

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

  • ACRIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACRIMONY

    ACRIMONY, Asperity or Sharpness, expresses a Quality in Bodies, by which they corrode, destroy, or dissolve others. See CORROSION, etc.Salts are only caustic in virtue of their Acrimony. See SALT, CAUSTIC, etc. The Acrimony of the Bile is supposed to...

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

  • ANCHOREThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCHORET

    ANCHORET, Anchorite, or Anachorite, a Hermit, or devout Person, living alone in some Desert; to be further out of the reach of the Temptations of the World, and more at leisure for Meditation. See HERMIT. ANCHORET

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

  • APOGRAPHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOGRAPH

    Ἀπόγραφον, a Copy or Transcript of some Book or Writing. See COPY. In this sense the Word stands opposed to Autograph; as a Copy to an Original. See AUTOGRAPH. It is formed of ἀπό (apo), away, from, and γράφω (grapho), I write. APOGRAPH

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

  • ANOMEANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANOMEANS

    ANOMOEANS, or ANOMIANS, ANOMOEL, or ANOMIANI, a Greek Word, composed of the privative α and ὅμοιος, similar, resembling; q.d. different, dissimilar. In the fourth Century, this was the Name by which the pure Arians were distinguished; in regard they not...

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

  • ALOPECIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALOPECIA

    or Alopecy, in Medicine, etc., a Falling of the Hair, from what Cause soever that arises. See HAIR. The Word is formed from alopec, Vulpes, a Fox; whose Urine, it is said, will occasion Baldness; or because such a Disease is common to that Creature....

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

  • ADJACENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADJACENT

    or Adjoining, refers to something contiguous or situated near another. See CONTIGUOUS. The word is compounded of "ad," meaning "to," and "jacere," meaning "to lie."Adjacent Angle. See ANGLE. ADJACENT

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

  • AESTIVALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AESTIVAL

    or Estival, of or belonging to Summer.See SUMMER. Thus, we say, the Æstival Solstice, etc. in opposition to Brumal, See SOLSTICE. AESTIVAL

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

  • AIGUISÉEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/AIGUISÉE

    or AGUISSÉE, or ÉQUISÉE, in heraldry, a term applied to a cross, when its four ends are sharpened, so however as to terminate in obtuse angles. See CROSS. The cross aiguisée differs from the cross fitchee, in that the latter goes tapering by degrees to...

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

  • AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION

    in Civil Law, the bond of consanguinity or relation between the male descendants of the same father; as Cognation is the bond of relation between all the descendants of the same father, both males and females. See COGNATION. The difference, then,...

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

  • ACTIVITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTIVITY

    ACTIVITY, the Power of Acting, or the Active Faculty.See FACULTY, etc. The activity of Fire exceeds all imagination. — The activity of an Acid, a Poison, etc. — Bodies, according to Sir Isaac Newton, derive their activity from the Principle of...

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

  • ASTERISKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTERISK

    a Character in form of a small Star, set over any Word, or Sentence, to make it the more conspicuous, or to refer to the Margin for a Quotation, Explanation, &c. See CHARACTER, NOTE, REFERENCE. The Word is derived from a Diminutive of the Greek ἀστήρ,...

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

  • ABRASIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABRASION

    is Sometimes used among Medical Writers for the Act of wearing away the natural Mucus which covers the Membranes, and particularly those of the Stomach and Intestines, by sharp corrosive Medicines, or Humors. See STOMACH, and INTESTINES. The Word is...

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