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  • AVERAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVERAGE

    thereof.—In such Case, all those for whose Interest the thing was cast into the Sea, are to contribute to indemnify the Person whose Property it was: And everything is to be taxed hereto, so much as Jewels, Gold, etc. notwithstanding they do not any way...

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

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

    principal Part of Algebra is the Consideration of broken Numbers. Others rather borrow it from the Spanish Algebrista, a Person who re-places dislocated Bones; adding, that Algebra has nothing to do with Fractions; in that it considers broken Numbers as...

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

  • ATHEISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHEIST

    Ἄθεος, a Person who denies the Deity; who does not believe the existence of a God, nor a Providence; and who has no Religion, true nor false. See GOD, PROVIDENCE, RELIGION. In general, a Man is said to be an Atheist who owns no Being superior to Nature,...

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

  • ATTORNEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTORNEY

    Attornatus, in law, a person appointed by another to do something in his stead; particularly to solicit and carry on a lawsuit. See AGENT, DEPUTY, etc. See also CAUSE, PROCESS, ACTION, etc. Attorneys in common law are much the same with Procurators,...

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

  • ABELIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABELIANS

    that HEBREW Thabala, in Arabic, came to signify, to abstain from one's Wife. He concludes, that he is the most mistaken Person in the World, or the Story had reach'd Africa, and given occasion both to the Sect, and the Name. 'Tis true, the Rabbins do...

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

  • ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT

    Magnitude and Humanity are Abstracts when consider'd in themselves, and without being attached to any particular Body, or Person ; tho they cannot have any real Subsistence without such Subjects, nor the Subjects without them. Thus, also, Whiteness is...

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

  • ANATHEMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANATHEMA

    one Judicatory, the other Abjuratory. The former can only be pronounced by a Council, a Pope, Bishop, or other qualified Person; and differs from a simple Excommunication in this, that an Excommunication only prohibits the Criminal from entering within...

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

  • ABATEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ABATEMENT

    Coat-Armour to diminish its proper Value and Dignity, and note some dishonourable Action, or Stain in the Character of the Person who bears it. See ARMS. 'Tis a little controverted among Authors, whether Heraldry allows of any such thing as regular...

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

  • ACCESSORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSORY

    Sense, the Word stands opposed to Principal. See PRINCIPAL. Accessory, or Accessary, in Common Law, is chiefly used for a Person guilty of a felonious Offence; not principally, but by Participation; as, by Advice, Command, or Concealment. See FELONY....

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

  • ARMINIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMINIANS

    taught, that God elected the Faithful out of a Foreknowledge of their Faith: But Episcopius, and others, think he elects no Person from all Eternity, and only elects the Faithful, at the Time when they actually believe. They speak very ambiguously of...

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • ANTICHRISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICHRIST

    which would rather imply Antichrist to be a corrupt Society, or a long Series of persecuting Pontiffs, than a single Person. However, the Point having been maturely debated at the Council of Gap, held in 1603, a Resolution was taken thereupon, to insert...

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

  • 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

  • Vice-ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/Vice-ADMIRAL

    likewise by information and accusation, according to the Civil Law; but that being found inconvenient, in regard no person could be convicted without either their own confession, or an eyewitness of the fact, so that the greatest offenders often escaped...

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

  • ALIENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALIEN

    in Law, a Person born out of the King’s Allegiance, and consequently not capable of inheriting Lands in England, till naturalized by Act of Parliament. See NATURALIZATION.Of these there are two Kinds, viz. Alien-Friends, who are of those Countries which...

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

  • ALVUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALVUS

    for the State, and Condition of the Feces, or Excrements contained within that Cavity. See EXCREMENT, etc. Thus, when a Person is laxative, it is called Alvus liquida; and when costive, Aluus adstricta. See COSTIVE, LAXATIVE, etc. ALVUS

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

  • AMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AMY

    in Law, the Person next of kin to an Orphan, or Infant; who is to be intrusted for him: properly called Prochein Amy. See PROCHEIN, &c. The Word is French, and literally signifies Friend. AMY

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

  • AERIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AERIANS

    AERIANS, in Antiquity, a Sect in Religion, denominated from Aerius; a Person alive in the Time of St. Epiphanius. The Aerians had much the same Sentiments, in respect of the Trinity, as the Arians; besides which, they had some Dogmas of their own, and...

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

  • AUXILIARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUXILIARY

    of their signifying: So that to supply this defect, recourse is had to different auxiliary verbs. See TERMINATION, TENSE, PERSON, etc. The auxiliary am supplies the want of passives in our language. See PASSIVE. Besides the perfect auxiliary verbs, we...

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