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  • ALLODIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALLODIAL

    Allodran, in ancient Customs.——Allodra, or Allodran Land, is that whereof a Person has the absolute Property; or which he holds without paying any Service or Acknowledgment to any Superior Lord. See PROPERTY, etc. Such an Inheritance is Allodial, i.e.,...

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

  • AFFIDAVIThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/AFFIDAVIT

    an Oath in Writing, sworn before some Person who hath Authority to take such Oath; and made use of, and read in Court, upon Motions, but not upon Trials, See OATH, EVIDENCE, WITNESS, etc.In the Court of Chancery is an Affidavit Office ; under the...

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

  • APARTMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APARTMENT

    a Portion of a large House, wherein a Person may lodge separately; having all the Conveniences requisite to make a complete Habitation. See HOUSE, etc. A complete Apartment must consist at least of a Chamber, an Antichamber, and a Cabinet or Wardrobe....

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

  • ATTAINTEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINTED

    in law, is used for a person found guilty of some crime or offence, particularly of felony or treason. See ATTAINDER. Yet a man is said to be attainted of disseisin; and so it is used in French: as, être attaint, & vaincu en aucun cas, is to be cast in...

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

  • ANDROGYNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANDROGYNE

    or Androgynus, an Hermaphrodite; something born with two Sexes, being Male and Female in the same Person. See HERMAPHRODITE. Many of the Rabbins are of opinion, that Adam was created Androgynous; that he was Male on one Side, and Female on the other;...

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

  • ASSISTANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSISTANT

    is used for a Person or Officer appointed to attend a principal Officer, for the more regular Discharge of his Function.—Such a Bishop or Priest had seven or eight Assistants. ASSISTANT, ASSISTANTS,are particularly used for a kind of Councillors, or...

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

  • ARCHITECThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ARCHITECT

    Architectus, a person skilled in architecture, or the art of buildings; who makes plans and designs of edifices, conducts the work, and directs the masons and other artificers employed therein. See ARCHITECTURE, PLAN, DESIGN, etc. The word is derived...

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

  • ASSERTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSERTION

    Assertio,in the language of the schools, a proposition which a person advances; which he avows to be true, and is ready to maintain in public. See PROPOSITION. ASSERTION

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

  • ACQUITTALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACQUITTAL

    ACQUITTAL, a Discharge, Deliverance, or setting free of a Person from the Guilt or Suspicion of an Offence.The like Discharge in Civil Concerns, is called an Acquittance.See ACQUITTANCE. Acquittal is of two Kinds; in Law, and in Fact.When two are...

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

  • AUTHORITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHORITY

    or writing. See TESTIMONY. The word is also particularly understood of an apophthegm, or sentence of some great or eminent person, quoted in a discourse, either by way of proof, or embellishment. The term also includes rules, laws, canons, decrees,...

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

  • ACOUSTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOUSTICS

    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. ACOUSTICS

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • AMERCIABLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMERCIABLE

    is said of a Person who is liable to be Amerced. See the preceding Article. AMERCIABLE

    • 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

  • 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

  • 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
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