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  • ADJOININGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ADJOINING

    Adjunction, in philosophy, etc. See ADJUNCT and ADJUNCTION.Adjoining is particularly used for the associating of a person to another, or appointing him a colleague, or adjunct.See ADJUNCT, etc. ADJOINING

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

  • ATTRIBUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ATTRIBUTE

    ATTRIBUTUM, in Philosophy, a Property which agrees to some Person, or Thing; or a Quality, which determines something to be after a certain Manner. See PROPERTY and QUALITY. Thus, Understanding is an Attribute of Mind; Figure, an Attribute of Body, etc....

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

  • ADROGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADROGATION

    among the Romans, was a kind of adoption, only differing from it in this: that the person here adopted was free and consented to be adopted by another; and that it was done at the assembly of the people, while the Commonwealth subsisted; and afterwards...

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

  • AUTOGRAPHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTOGRAPHY

    Αὐτογραφία, the very handwriting of any person: or the original of a treatise, or discourse.—In opposition to a copy. See HANDWRITING, ORIGINAL, COPY, etc. The word is formed of the two Greek words αὐτός, and γράφω, scribo. AUTOGRAPHY

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

  • ANTINOMASYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ANTINOMASY

    Philosopher, instead of Aristotle; the Orator, for Cicero; the Apostle, for St.Paul, etc. Thus also we call a voluptuous Person, a Sardanapalus, etc. Thus we say Henry the Great, meaning Henry IV. of France. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἀντί,...

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

  • ACOUSTICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOUSTICKS

    impossible to hear the lowest sound that can be made, to the Distance of a Furlong;and that he knows a way of hearing any Person speak through a Stone-Wall three Feet thick. See WHISPERINGPlace, and ECHO.Acoustic Nerve. See AUDITORY NERVE.

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

  • APOSTROPHEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/APOSTROPHE

    whereby the Orator, in an extraordinary Commotion, turns his Discourse from the Audience, and directs it to some other Person, or thing. See FIGURE. Thus, Cicero, in his Oration for Milo, addresses himself to the Great Patriots who had shed their Blood...

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

  • ACCOUNTANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOUNTANT

    ACCOUNTANT, or Accountant, a person or officer appointed to keep or make up the accounts of a company, office, court, or the like. See ACCOUNT. There are accountants in the Customhouse, the Excise, etc. See EXCISE, and CUSTOMHOUSE. The...

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

  • ANTIPTOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ANTIPTOSIS

    one Case is put for another. See CASE. The Word comes from the Greek ἀντί, pro, and πτῶσις, Case. ANTIQUARY, Antiquarius, a Person who studies and searches after Monuments and Remains of the Ancients; as, old Medals, old Books, old Statues, Sculptures,...

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

  • ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE

    OF EXCHANGE. The acceptance is usually performed by him on whom the bill is drawn, upon its being presented to him by the person in whose behalf it was drawn or his order. While the acceptor is the master of his signature, i.e. before he has returned...

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

  • AUDITORIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITORIUM

    church. See NAVE. In the primitive times, the church was so strict in keeping the people together in that place, that the person who went from thence in sermon-time was order’d by the Council of Carthage to be excommunicated. AUDITORIUM

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

  • AUSCULTAREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AUSCULTARE

    regard the reading of prayers with a graceful tone or accent, makes some impression on the hearers; there was anciently a person appointed, in monasteries, to hear the monks read, who instructed them how to perform it, before they were admitted to read...

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

  • ACQUIETAREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACQUIETARE

    ACQUIETARE, in our ancient Law-Books, signifies to pay the Debts of a Person deceased; as the Heir those of his Father, etc. ACQUIETARE

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

  • APOTHECARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOTHECARY

    a Person who practices Pharmacy, or that part of Physics which consists in the Preparation and Composition of Medicines. See PHARMACY and MEDICINE. Nicholas Langius has written a large Volume expressly against the Apothecaries, their errors in pro quos...

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

  • ALMS-Househttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMS-House

    a House built by a Person in a private Capacity, and endowed with a Revenue, for the Maintenance of a certain Number of poor, aged, or disabled People. See HOSPITAL. ALMS-House

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

  • ANTICHRESIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICHRESIS

    in the Civil Law, a Covenant or Convention, whereby a Person borrowing Money of another, engages, or makes over his Lands to the Creditor, with the Use and Occupation thereof, for the Interest of the Money lent. This Covenant was allowed of by the...

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

  • ADOLESCENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOLESCENCE

    Adolescencia, the state of youth;or that period of a person's age commencing from his infancy, and terminating at his full growth. See AGE. The state of Adolescence lasts so long as the fibers continue to grow, either in magnitude or firmness. See...

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

  • ANTECHAMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTECHAMBER

    an outer Chamber, before the chief Chamber of an Apartment; where the Servants wait, and Strangers stay, till the Person to be spoken withal is at leisure, etc. See APARTMENT. The Word is formed of the Latin Ante Camera. See CHAMBER. ANTECHAMBER

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

  • AMPHITHEATREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMPHITHEATRE

    which comes from θεάομαι (theáomai), specto, contemplor; so that an Amphitheatre, strictly speaking, is a Place whence a Person may see all around him. AMPHITHEATRE

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

  • AB-INTESTATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AB-INTESTATE

    in Law, the Heir of a Person who died intestate, and yet had the Power of making a Testament. See INTESTATE, and HEIR. AB-INTESTAT

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