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  • CHERSONESUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/CHERSONESUS

    CHERSONESUS, in Geography, a Peninsula; or a Continent almost incompass'd round with the Sea, only joining to the main Land by a narrow Neck, or Isthmus. See PENINSULA. This Term is us'd by the Moderns, in Complaisance to the Antients, who call'd all...

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

  • ANTHOLOGIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ANTHOLOGION

    Anthologion, a Church Book in use among the Greeks. See GREEK. The Anthologion is a sort of Breviary or Mass-Book, containing the daily Offices addressed to our Saviour, the Virgin, and the principal Saints; with other Common Offices of Prophets,...

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

  • ADJOURNMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADJOURNMENT

    the putting off a court or meeting;and appointing it to be held at another time or place.See COURT, etc. In this sense, we meet with the phrase Adjournment in Eyre, for an appointment of a day when the Justices in Eyre intend to sit again. See JUSTICE,...

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

  • APOBATERIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOBATERION

    among the Ancients, signified a farewell Speech, or Poem; occasioned by a Person's departure out of his own Country, or some other place where he had been kindly received and entertained. Such is that of Aeneas to Helenus and Andromache, En. Lib. III....

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

  • ALANORARIUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALANORARIUS

    ALANORARIUS, in our ancient Customs, a Keeper or Manager of Spaniels, or Setting-Dogs, for the Sport of Hunting, Hawking, &c. See HUNTING, and HAWKING. The Word is formed from the Gothic Alan, a Greyhound. ALANORARIUS

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

  • ANAGLYPHICEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGLYPHICE

    or the Anactypnrc Art, signifies Sculpture; or the Art of Carving, Engraving, Chasing, and Embossing. See SCULPTURE, CARVING, ENGRAVING, ENCHASING, &c. The Word comes from the Greek ἀναγλυφή (anaglyphe), exsculpo. ANAGLYPHICE

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

  • ALBUMEN Ovihttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALBUMEN%20Ovi

    Ovi, the white of an Egg. See EGG. It is used in Medicine, as being of a glutinous or binding Nature, on which Account it is often mixed with Bole Armeniac, &c. to prevent any strained Part from rising into a Tumor, and restore it to its Tone or...

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

  • ALGEBRAICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRAICAL

    something that relates to Algebra. See ALGEBRA.In this Sense, we say, Algebraical Characters, or Symbols. See CHARACTER. Algebraical Curve, is a Curve, wherein the Relation of the Abscissas to the Semiordinates, may be defined by an Algebraical...

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

  • AUTHENTICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHENTICKS

    The reason of the denomination is not well known.—Alciat will have it to have been first given them by Accursius. They were originally composed in Greek, and afterwards translated into Latin by the Patrician Julian, who also reduced them into fewer...

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

  • ARISTOCRACYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOCRACY

    a Form of political Government, where the supreme Power is lodged in the Hands of the Optimates, i.e. a Council or Senate composed of the principal Persons of a State, either in respect of Nobility, Capacity, or Probity. See GOVERNMENT and OPTIMATES....

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

  • ADULTERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERATION

    Adulteratio, the act of debasing a medicine or other thing, with bad ingredients; or the putting one thing for, and into another. See SOPHISTICATION. To adulterate the current coin, is a capital crime in all nations. See MONEY, and COIN. The word is...

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

  • ANASTOMATICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANASTOMATICS

    or Anastomatic Medicines, are those that have the ability to open and dilate the Orifices of the Vessels; and by that means making the Blood circulate more freely. The Word comes from the Greek ἀναστομόω (anastomoō), meaning to open or unstop

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

  • ANTHROPOLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOLOGY

    Anthropologia, a Discourse or Treatise upon Man, or Human Nature. Anthropology includes the Consideration both of the Human Body and Soul, with the Laws of their Union, and the Effects thereof, as Sensation, Motion, etc. See BODY, SOUL, SENSATION,...

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

  • ARCH-CHANTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH-CHANTER

    Archicantor, the chief orpresident of the chanters of a church. See CHANTER. ARCH DRUID, Archidruida, the chief or pontiffof the ancient Druids in a nation. See DRUID. ARCH BUTLER, Archipincerna, the Great Butler of the Empire. See BUTLER. The King of...

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

  • ALCALIZATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALCALIZATION

    or Alkalization, Alcalizatio, in Chemistry, the Act of impregnating a Liquor with an alkaline Salt. See ALKALY.This is done either to make it a better Dissolvent, for some particular Purposes; or to load the Phlegm, so as it may not rise in...

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

  • ALTO & Bassohttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALTO?Basso=

    & Basso, or in Alto & in Basso, in Law, signifies the absolute Reference of all Differences, small and great, high and low, to some Arbitrator or indifferent Person. Pareat universis per praesentes quod Willielmus Tylar de Yetton, & Thomas Gower de...

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

  • ANTEPAGMENTAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ANTEPAGMENTA

    in the ancient Architecture, the Jambs of a Door, or Lintels of a Window. The Word is also used for the entire Chambranle, i.e., the Door-Case, or Window-Frame. ANTEPAGMENTA

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

  • ARMILUSTRIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARMILUSTRIUM

    Sound of Trumpets. See FEAST. Some define Armilustrium to have been a Feast, wherein a general Review was made of all the Forces in the Campus Martius.—But this does not come up to the Point; for Varro does not derive the Word from the Latin Arma and...

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

  • AUGMENTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUGMENTATION

    AUGMENTATIO, the act of augmenting; that is, of adding or joining something to another, to render it larger, or more considerable. See ADDITION, ACCESSION, ACCRETION, AMPLIFICATION, etc. AUGMENTATION is also used for the augment; i.e. the thing added....

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

  • ARGUMENTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARGUMENTATION

    the Act of inventing or framing Arguments; of making Inductions, and drawing Conclusions. See ARGUMENT, INDUCTION, CONCLUSION, etc. See also DISCOURSE, RATIOCINATION, etc. Argumentation, according to Cicero, is the delivering, or unfolding of an...

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