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  • ADVERTISEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVERTISEMENT

    an intelligence, or information, given to persons interested in an affair. The word is formed from the French Avertissement, from the Latin Advertere, to advert, consider, or regard. ADVERTISEMENT

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

  • APOLLINARISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOLLINARISTS

    that the Souls of Men were propagated by other Souls, as well as their Bodies —Theodoret charges him with confounding the Persons of the Godhead; and with giving into the Errors of Sabellius: and Basil accuses him of abandoning the literal sense of...

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

  • ADMINISTRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMINISTRATION

    of the sacraments in his parish. See PARSON, PARISH, etc. The administration of the sacrament is prohibited to persons excommunicate.See EXCOMMUNICATION. In beneficiary matters, they distinguish two kinds of administration; temporal, which relates to...

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

  • ARVALES FRATREShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARVALES%20FRATRES

    the Corn and Wine. See PRIEST and AMBARVALIA, &c. They were instituted by Romulus, and were twelve in Number; all of them Persons of the first Distinction; the Founder himself having been of the Body.—They made a College, called Collegium Fratrum...

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

  • ÆSTIMATIO Capitishttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ÆSTIMATIO%20Capitis

    held at Exeter, declared what Mulcts were to be paid pro æstimatione capitis, for Offences committed against several Persons according to their degrees; the Estimation of the King’s Head to be 30000 Thrymsas; of an Archbishop, or Satrapa, or Prince,...

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

  • AMITTERE ZEGEM TERREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AMITTERE%20ZEGEM%20TERRE

    is the Punishment of a Champion overcome, or yielding in the Combat; of Jurors found guilty in a Writ of Attaint; and of Persons outlawed. See CHAMPION, COMBAT, JUROR, OUTLAWRY, &c. AMITTERE ZEGEM TERRE

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

  • ADMITTENDO in Sociumhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMITTENDO%20in%20Socium

    in Socium, is a writ for the association of certain persons to Justices of Assize formerly appointed. See JUSTICE, and ASSIZE. ADMITTENDO in Socium

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

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    sunk to one-fourth of its original duration. Age, in Law, is often understood as a certain state or time of life, wherein a person is qualified to do something, which before, due to lack of years, and consequently discretion, they could not. See MAJOR,...

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

  • AGENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AGENT

    what are known as Exchange-Brokers in other contexts. See BROKER and EXCHANGE. Agent and Patient in Common Law refers to a person who performs an action or gives something to himself. An example is a woman who endows herself with part of her husband's...

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

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    into the Liquor in several succeeding Bubbles; and even through the Liquor into the open Air, Ubi supra. The same excellent Person further assures us, he procured a really elastic Substance from divers other Matters; as Bread, Grapes, Must, Ale, Apples,...

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

  • ANGELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGEL

    SPIRIT. The Word Angel, is not properly a Denomination of Nature, but of Office; denoting as much as Nuntius, Messenger, a Person employed to carry one’s Orders, or declare his Will.—Thus it is St. Paul represents Angels, Heb. 1. 14, where he calls them...

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

  • ARMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARM

    passed by Ecclesiastical Judges. See SECULAR. The Church sheds no Blood: Even the Inquisition, after they have found the Person guilty, surrenders him to the secular Arm. See INQUISITION. The Council of Antioch, held in 341, decrees, that Recourse be...

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

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    for the due production of certain effects; or the introducing of changes in bodies from some foreknowledge and design in a person endued with a principle or faculty of acting. See HABIT, ACTION, etc. On this footing, Arts are divided into active and...

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

  • AULIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AULIC

    a Hall; it being in the Hall of the University that this Act is usually held. See UNIVERSITY, DEGREE, DOCTOR, etc. The Person who presides at the Disputation is the same, that is, to take the Doctor’s Cap. Aulic, Aulicus, is also a Name attributed to...

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

  • AXIOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIOM

    ἀξίωμα, a self-evident truth; or a proposition whose truth every person perceives at first sight. See TRUTH and PROPOSITION. Thus, that the whole is greater than a part; that a thing cannot give what itself has not; that a thing cannot be and not be at...

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

  • CHESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game/CHESS

    divided into 64 Squares; where Art and Address are so indispensibly requisite, that Chance seems to have no place; and a Person never loses but by his own Fault. On each side are eight Men, and as many Pawns, which are to be mov'd and shifted, according...

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

  • DAMPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAMPS

    a few Hours working, the Maid going down to call her Matter, sound them all in their digging Postures : but stark dead. The Person who managed the Spade, and his Attendant who shovel'd off the Earth, were both on Foot, and seemjngly intent on their...

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

  • ASSENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSENT

    by repeated acts. See HABIT and HABITUATION. To this belongs faith, which is an assent arising from the authority of the person who speaks: Such also is opinion, which is defined as an assent of the mind cum formidine oppositi, etc. See FAITH, OPINION,...

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

  • ASYLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASYLUM

    Servius derives it from the Greek ἄσυλος; which is compounded of the privative particle ἀ-, and συλάω, to seize; because no Person could be taken out of an Asylum without Sacrilege. See SACRILEGE. The first Asylums were established at Athens, by the...

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

  • AUDITORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITOR

    Notaries are also frequently call’d AUDITORES. AUDITOR, in our law, is an officer of the king, or some other great person, who yearly, by examining the accounts of under officers accountable, makes up a general book, with the difference between their...

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