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  • ATTACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTACK

    an attempt upon any person or thing; or the act of beginning a combat, or dispute. See AGGRESSOR. ATTACK, in the military art, is an attempt or engagement to force a post, a body of troops, or the like. See ASSAULT. We say to begin, to make, to sustain...

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

  • ANCHOREThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCHORET

    Anchorite, or Anachorite, a Hermit, or devout Person, living alone in some Desert; to be further out of the reach of the Temptations of the World, and more at leisure for Meditation. See HERMIT. ANCHORET

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

  • ARMORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMOR

    the General Officers, and those of the Cavalry, were obliged to resume the Cuirass.—Coat-Armour, is the Escutcheon of any Person, or Family, with its several Charges, and other Furniture, as Mantling, Crest, Supporters, Motto, etc. See ESCUTCHEON,...

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

  • ACACIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ACACIA

    the Use of this Roll, or about the Substance whereof it consists; some taking it for a plaited Handkerchief, which the Person who presided at the Games threw out as a Signal for their beginning; whilst others rather imagine it intended to represent a...

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

  • ACCESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESS

    ACCESS, literally signifies easiness of approach, or entrance. See ACCESSIBLE. Such a person has access to the prince: a man of easy access: the access on that side was very difficult, by reason of rocks, etc. The word is of Latin origin, Accessus, or...

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

  • ACERRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ACERRA

    ACERRA, in antiquity, a kind of altar erected near the gate of a person deceased among the Romans; whereon his friends and familiars daily offered incense till the time of his burial. See ALTAR, FUNERAL, etc. ACERRA

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

  • ACTUALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTUAL

    See GRACE. So, Actual Sin is used in opposition to Original Sin. See SIN. Actual Sin is that committed knowingly, by a person arrived at years of discretion. Original Sin is that we contract by descent, as being children of Adam. See ORIGINAL. ACTUAL

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

  • AGILDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGILDE

    in our ancient customs, a person so vile, that whoever killed him was to pay no mulct for his death. See AESTIMATIO CAPITIS.The word comes from the privative a, and the Saxon Gildan, solvere. See GILT. AGILDE

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

  • ARRESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARREST

    in common Law,an Execution of the Command of some Court, or Officer of Justice—Hence, when a Person is legally stopped, apprehended, and restrained of his Liberty, for Debt, etc. he is said to be arrested, or put under an Arrest; which is the beginning...

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

  • ADDRESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDRESS

    of Oliver Cromwell. The word is French, Adresse, formed from the verb adresser, to send or direct anything to a person. At Paris, their office of intelligence is called Bureau d'Adresse. Address is also used for dexterity. See DEXTERITY. ADDRESS

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

  • APOLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOLOGY

    Ἀπολογία, Defence; a Discourse or Writing in vindication of a Person. See DEFENCE, VINDICATION, etc. The Word is formed of the Greek ἀπολογοῦμαι (apologoumai), I refute, I repel with Words. APOLOGY

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

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

    etc. There are now three Officers relating to the Alnage or Regulation of Cloth; all which were anciently comprised in one Person.—These bear the distinct Names of Searcher, Measurer, and Alnager. A Duty being imposed on woollen Cloths, for the...

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

  • ASSURORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSUROR

    a Merchant, or other Person, who assures a Ship, House, Life, or the like. See ASSURANCE. Assurors are not answerable for what Damages arise through the Negligence, or other Fault of the Master or Seamen; or even those which arise from any Vice or...

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

  • ATHLETAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHLETA

    ATHLETA, in Antiquity a Wrestler, or a strong courageous Person, who employs himself in Exercises of the Body, as running, Wrestling, and other the like Gymnic Sports, for which the Ancients had established Prizes. See EXERCISE and GYMNASTIC. See also...

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

  • ARBORISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARBORIST

    Arborista, a person skilled in trees; their kinds, forms, natures, etc. See TREE. An arborist is an appellation of less extent than botanist. See BOTANY, etc. ARBORIST

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

  • ADOPTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOPTIVE

    Adoptivus, or Adoptivius, a person adopted by another. See ADOPTION. The Emperor Hadrian preferred adoptive children to natural ones; by reason we choose the former, but are obliged to take the latter at random. Adoptive children, among the Romans, were...

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

  • APOSTASYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTASY

    by a Priest or Religious, who abandons his Profession, and returns to his Lay State; the second, a Mandatis Dei, by a Person of any Condition, who abandons the Commands of God, though he retains his Faith; the third, a Fide, by him who not only abandons...

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

  • ASSESSORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSESSOR

    village, elected by the community, to settle the taxes, and other impositions of the year, to fix the proportion which each person is to bear, and to see the collection made. See TAX, etc. By the Stat. 16 & 17 Car. 2. two inhabitants in every parish...

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

  • ADVOWSONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVOWSON

    was left to the Religious, yet a Congé d'Elire, or Licence of Election, was first to be obtained of the Patron, and the Person elected was confirmed by him. If the Founder’s Family was extinct, the Patronage of the Convent went to the Lord of the Manor....

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

  • APPRAISEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPRAISE

    to rate, value, or set a Price on Goods, by a Person who is a competent Judge, and is authorized thereto. The Word is derived from the French apprécier, which signifies the same thing: Hence we also say an Appraiser, a Sworn Appraiser, an Appraisement,...

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