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  • AREOPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AREOPAGUS

    upon them. All pleadings before them, were to be in thesimplest and most naked terms; without exordium, epilogue, passions, etc. See EXORDIUM, EPILOGUE, etc. At first they only took cognizance of criminal causes, but in course of time their jurisdiction...

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

  • ANTIPATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPATHY

    ANTIPATHY, Antipathia, a natural Enmity, or Aversion of one Body to another. In this Sense, the Word stands opposed to Sympathy. See SYMPATHY. Such is commonly said to be between the Salamander and the Tortoise, the Vine and the Elm, the Toad and the...

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

  • ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION

    ABSTRACTION, an Operation of the Mind, whereby we separate Things naturally conjunct, or existing together ; and form and consider Ideas of Things thus separated. See ABSTRACT. The Faculty of Abstracting, stands directly opposite to that of Compounding...

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    ARCHITECTONIC, that which builds a thing up regularly, according to the nature and intentions thereof. Thus, that plastic power, spirit, or whatever else it bewhich hatches the ova of females into living creaturesof the same species, is by some called...

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

  • ANDROGYNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANDROGYNE

    ANDROGYNE; or Androgynus, an Hermaphrodite; something born with two Sexes, being Male and Female in the same Person. See HERMAPHRODITE. Many of the Rabbins are of opinion, that Adam was created Androgynous; that he was Male on one Side, and Female on...

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

  • ACTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTIVE

    ACTIVE, Activus, something that communicates Motion, or Action to another. See ACTION. In this sense, the word stands opposed to Passive. See PASSIVE. Thus, we say, an Active Cause, Active Principles, &c.See CAUSE. The Quantity of Motion in the World,...

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

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    ACT, Actus, in Physics, an effective exercise or application of some power or faculty. See ACTION. In this sense, the word Act stands opposed to Power, Potentia, which is the capacity of acting. See POWER and POTENTIA. Though the word Act, properly and...

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

  • Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A

    A Vowel, and the first Letter of the English Alphabet. See LETTER, VOWEL, and ALPHABET ; where what relates to A, consider'd in each of those Capacities, is delivered. The Grammarians will needs have A the first Letter in all Languages ; and some of...

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

  • Theologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology

    THEOLOGY, or the Consideration of GOD: his Nature and Attributes, as Eternity, Ubiquity, &c. His Unity, Trinity, &c. Persons, Hypostasis. &c. Our Duty to him, discover'd by Inspiration, Revelation, Prophecy, &c. by the Mesiah, Evangelisis, Apostles,...

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