Cyclopædia
Assuming person is required, the following 135 results were found.
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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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ADVENTITIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVENTITIOUS
something accruing or befalling a person or thing from without. See ACCESSION, etc.Thus, Adventitious Matter, is such matter as does not properly belong to any body, but is casually joined to it.See ACCRETION, APPUNCTION, etc. Adventitious, in Civil...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACCUMULATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCUMULATION
together. The word is compounded of ad and cumulus, "heap."The lawyers speak of an accumulation of titles; as, when a person claims lands, a benefice, or the like, in virtue of several titles or pretensions of different kinds; e.g. by death, by...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AUTOCEPHALUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTOCEPHALUS
a person who is his own chief or master, and has no other over him. See ACEPHALUS. The word is compounded of the Greek αὐτός, ipse; and κεφαλή, head. This denomination was given by the Greeks to certain archbishops, who were exempted from the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APOLOGETICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOLOGETICAL
Ἀπολογητικός, something said, or written by way of Excuse, or Apology for any Action, or Person. See APOLOGY. The Apologetic of Tertullian is a Work full of Strength and Spirit; such as in all respects became the Character of that Father—— He there...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTHROPOMANCYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOMANCY
or Anthropomantia, a Method of Divination, performed by inspecting the Viscera of a Person deceased. See DIVINATION. The Word is compounded of ἄνθρωπος, Man, and μαντεία, Divination. ANTHROPOMANCY
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ADMINISTRATORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADMINISTRATOR
in law, is the person to whom the ordinary commits the administration of the goods of a dead man, in default of an executor. See ADMINISTRATION, WILL, EXECUTOR, etc. An action lies for or against an Administrator, as for an Executor; and he shall be...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ACCOMPLISHMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOMPLISHMENT
or fulfilling of something proposed, or undertaken. The Accomplishment of the Prophecies of the Old Testament, in the Person of our Saviour, is the great mark of his being the Messiah. See PROPHECY. There are two ways of accomplishing a Prophecy;...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AD Quod Damnumhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AD%20Quod%20Damnum
in any town, or place. See FAIR, MARKET, etc. The same writ also issues for an inquiry to be made of what the king or other person may suffer, by granting lands in fee-simple to a convent, chapter, or other body politic; because such land falls into...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ATTACHIAMENTA BONORUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTACHIAMENTA%20BONORUM
BONORUM, in our ancient law books, denotes a distress taken upon the goods or chattels of any person, sued for personal estate, or debt, by the legal attachiators or bailiffs, as a security to answer the action.
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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AMERCIABLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMERCIABLE
is said of a Person who is liable to be Amerced. See the preceding Article. AMERCIABLE
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APOSIOPESEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/APOSIOPESES
in Rhetoric, otherwise called Reticency; a Figure, by which a Person really speaks of a thing, at the same time, that he makes a show as if he would say nothing of it. See RETICENCY. The Word comes from the Greek ἀποσιωπάω (aposiōpaō), to be silent, to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Rhetoric
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ALTO & Bassohttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALTO?Basso=
Law, signifies the absolute Reference of all Differences, small and great, high and low, to some Arbitrator or indifferent Person. Pareat universis per praesentes quod Willielmus Tylar de Yetton, & Thomas Gower de Almestre, posuerunt se in Alto & in...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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