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  • AMBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/manage/AMBLE

    Ambling, in Horsemanship, a peculiar kind of Pace, wherein a Horse’s two Legs of the same Side, move at the same time. See PACE. The ambling Horse changes Sides at each remove; two Legs of a side being in the Air, and two, on the ground, at the same...

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

  • ARACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARACK

    which is that commonly sent abroad, is but a weak spirit in comparison with Batavia Arrack; yet, on account of its peculiar and agreeable flavour, is preferred to all the other Arracks of India. This is attributed to the earthen vessels, which alone...

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

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    the Ark was called the Propitiatory, over which were two Figures placed called Cherubim, a kind of Spirits with Wings of a peculiar Form never seen but by Moses before the Throne of God. It may be added that some Critics take the Word Cherub, כְּרוּב,...

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

  • ALMONDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMOND

    of what the common People call a sore Throat. See OESOPHAGUS, RAUCIDITY, etc. Almond-Furnace, or Arman-Furnace, is a peculiar kind of Furnace, used in Refining; to separate all kinds of Metals from Cinders, parts of Melting-Pots, Tests, Bricks, etc. See...

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

  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    which signifies Opposition and Comparison. Thus, Algebra-Almocabelah, is what we properly call Algebra. Algebra is a peculiar kind of Arithmetic, which takes the quantity sought, whether it be a Number, or a Line, or any other Quantity, as if it were...

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

  • ANNATEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNATES

    were paid to the Pope. It's certain at least, that from the Twelfth Century, there were Bishops and Abbots, who by some peculiar Custom or Privilege, took Annates of the Benefices depending on their Diocese or Abbey. Matthew Paris, in his History of...

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

  • ÆOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆOLIPILE

    FIRE.—The mechanical Philosophers, on the other hand, hold that the Vapor, at its Exit from the Ball, is endowed with that peculiar Species of circular Motion, which constitutes the Quality Heat; and that the further it recedes therefrom, the more is...

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

  • AUTUMNALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTUMNAL

    something peculiar to autumn. AUTUMNAL

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

  • ACEPHALUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACEPHALUS

    as are exempted from the discipline and jurisdiction of their ordinary bishop or patriarch. See EXEMPTION, PRIVILEGE, PECULIAR. Anastasius the Library-Keeper calls this exemption from the jurisdiction of a patriarch, Autocephalia. See PATRIARCH. We find...

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

  • APOSTOLIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTOLIC

    not contented to hold the Title by this Tenure, began, at length, to insist, that it belonged to them by another and peculiar Right, as being the Successors of St. Peter. And hence a Legion of Apostolicals; Apostolical See, Apostolical Nuncio,...

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    only shines on all the Planets, but by his genial Warmth calls forth, excites, and raises the Motions, Properties, etc. peculiar to them; and his Rays must share or receive somewhat of the Tincture thereof; and thus tinged be again reflected into the...

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

  • AEOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEOLIPILE

    Fire.—The mechanical Philosophers, on the other hand, hold that the Vapor, at its Exit from the Ball, is endowed with that peculiar Species of circular Motion, which constitutes the Quality Heat; and that the further it recedes therefrom, the more is...

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

  • ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI

    Bodies, and intimately mixing with all the minute Atoms thereof, assumes somewhat of their Nature; and becomes of a peculiar Kind. So the Poet:"Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet."They add, that...

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

  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    they divided into a great number of Sects; which took particular Denominations, either from the Leaders thereof, or the peculiar Opinions, which they superadded to the general System of Anabaptism. The principal were the Muncerians, Catharists,...

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

  • AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE

    with the Persians, suppose the fish that yields the Ambergrease, a Sea-Calf; others, with the Africans, a peculiar species of fish, named Ambracanz; others a crocodile, by reason its flesh is perfumed, etc. But, to both these hypotheses it is objected,...

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

  • ARCHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHES

    is called the Dean of the Arches, or the Official of the Arches Court, &c., with which Officialty, is commonly joined a peculiar Jurisdiction over thirteen parishes in London, termed aDeanery, exempt from the Authority of the Bishop of London, and...

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

  • ADIPOSAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ADIPOSA

    immediately under the cutis;supposed to be the basis of the fat, which is lodged in the spaces between its fibers and in peculiar cells formed herein. See FAT, CUTIS, etc. Anatomists are divided as to the reality of this membrane;most of the later...

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

  • 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

  • ALNAGERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALNAGER

    Measuring and Searching, till by his own neglect it was thought proper to separate the two Offices. So that there is now a peculiar Measurer, distinct from the Alnager, or Collector, to allow the Assize of the Length and Breadth of every Cloth made in...

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

  • ANCHOVYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce/ANCHOVY

    Mouth, no Teeth, but Gums as rough as a Saw. Others make it a sort of Pilchard: But others, with better Reason, hold it a peculiar Species, very different from either. See FISH. ANCHOVY

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