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  • ARBITERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ARBITER

    in civil law, a judge nominated by the magistrate, or chosen voluntarily by two contending parties, on whom they confer a power, by compromise, of deciding their difference according to law. See FIDES and COMPROMISE. ARBITER

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

  • ALLIOTHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ALLIOTH

    the Great Bear, whose Observation is much used at Sea. See STAR. Its Longitude, Latitude, &c., see among the rest of Ursa Major. To find the Latitude, or Elevation of the Pole by this Star. See LATITUDE, and POLE. ALLIOTH

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

  • ALLONGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLONGE

    in Fencing, a Thrust, or Pass at the Enemy. See PASS, GUARD, etc. The Word is French, formed of the Verb Allonger, to lengthen out a thing by piecing another to it. ALLONGE

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

  • ALMARIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ALMARIA

    for Armaria, in our ancient Records, the Archives of a Church, or the like. See ARCHIVE. ALMARIA

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

  • ARRETEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARRETED

    Arrectatus,is sometimes used in our ancient Law-Books, for imputed, or laid to; as, No Folly may be arreted to one under Age. ARRETED

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

  • ALUDELShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALUDELS

    in Chemistry, Subliming-Pots. Aludels, are a Range of earthen Tubes, or Pots without bottoms; fitted, one over another, and diminishing as they advance towards the Top.—The lowest is adapted to a Pot, placed in the Furnace, wherein the Matter to be...

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

  • ALVEOLIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ALVEOLI

    be nervous, and is wrapped about the Roots of each Tooth; from whence, and the Nerve, proceeds that Pain called Odontalgia, or Tooth-ache. See ODONTALGIA, and TOOTH-ACHE. ALVEOLI

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

  • AMBIENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBIENT

    it encompasses all things on the Face of the Earth, is often by Physical Writers called, by way of Eminence, the Ambient, or Ambient Air.See AIR. The Word is formed of the Latin Ambire, to encompass, go round. AMBIENT

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

  • ASCETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCETIC

    Ascetes, an ancient Name for such Persons, as in the primitive Times devoted themselves to the Exercises of Piety and Virtue in a retired Life; and particularly to Prayer and Mortification. See SOLITARY. Afterwards, when the Monks came in fashion, this...

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

  • ASCITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCITES

    Medicine, a Species of Dropsy, affecting chiefly the Abdomen, or Lower Belly. See ABDOMEN. The Ascites is the ordinary Water-Dropsy. See DROPSY. The Word is borrowed from the Greek ἀσκίτης, Belly.

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

  • ASCOLIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCOLIA

    always on one Foot, whilst the other was suspended in Air, by their frequent Falls, gave occasion of Diversion to the Spectators.—Hence this Feast took its Name; ἀσκός, signifying a Bag or Bladder.

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

  • AGILITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGILITY

    Agilitas, Nimbleness; a light and active habit, or disposition of the members, and parts designed for motion. See MUSCLE, and MUSCULAR. AGILITY

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

  • AGISTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGISTOR

    AGISTOR, an officer of the forest, who takes in the cattle of strangers, to feed therein; and receives for the King’s use, all such tack-money as becomes due upon that account. See FOREST, and AGIST.In English, they are otherwise called, Guest-takers,...

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

  • AGNOMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGNOMEN

    among the Romans, was a kind of surname, usually given on occasion of some particular action, habit, or other circumstance of the bearer. See NAME, and SURNAME. Thus, one of the Scipios was named Africanus, and the other Asiaticus, from the brave...

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

  • AGRIPPAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGRIPPA

    a Name applied, among the Ancients, to Children delivered in an unusual, or irregular manner. See DELIVERY. They were called Agrippae, quasi e grege parti. AGRIPPA

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

  • ASSAULThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSAULT

    in Law, is a violent Injury offered to a Man’sPerson, of a larger Extent than Battery, for that it may becommitted by only offering to give a Blow, or by a threatening Speech, etc. See BATTERY. To rebuke a Collector with foul Words, so that he departed...

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

  • ASSOILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSOILE

    our ancient Law Books, signifies to absolve, deliver, or set free from an Excommunication. See ABSOLUTION, EXCOMMUNICATION, etc. ASSOILE

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

  • ANAGOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGOGY

    Anacoge, a Rapture, or Elevation of the Soul, to things Celestial, and Eternal. See ECSTASY, &c. This is not the natural Sense of such a Passage of Scripture; it is an Anagogy. See MYSTIC. We have Comments on the Scripture, which are Anagogies...

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

  • ANARCHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANARCHY

    the lack of Government in a Nation, where no supreme Authority is lodged, either in the Prince or other Rulers; but the People live without order, and all things are in confusion. See GOVERNMENT. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀναρχία, from the...

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

  • ATARAXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATARAXY

    to denote that calmness and tranquillity of mind, and that firmness of judgment which sets us free from any agitations or emotions arising from self-opinion, and the knowledge we imagine ourselves possessed of. See STOICS. In this Ataraxia, they...

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