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  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    for the due production of certain effects; or the introducing of changes in bodies from some foreknowledge and design in a person endued with a principle or faculty of acting. See HABIT, ACTION, etc. On this footing, Arts are divided into active and...

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

  • AUGURhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGUR

    form conjectures about future events. See AUGURY. The augurs made a college or community, which at first consisted of three persons, then four, and lastly nine; four of them patricians, and five plebeians.—Cicero was of the college of augurs. See...

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

  • AULIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AULIC

    a Hall; it being in the Hall of the University that this Act is usually held. See UNIVERSITY, DEGREE, DOCTOR, etc. The Person who presides at the Disputation is the same, that is, to take the Doctor’s Cap. Aulic, Aulicus, is also a Name attributed to...

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

  • AXIOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIOM

    ἀξίωμα, a self-evident truth; or a proposition whose truth every person perceives at first sight. See TRUTH and PROPOSITION. Thus, that the whole is greater than a part; that a thing cannot give what itself has not; that a thing cannot be and not be at...

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

  • CHESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game/CHESS

    divided into 64 Squares; where Art and Address are so indispensibly requisite, that Chance seems to have no place; and a Person never loses but by his own Fault. On each side are eight Men, and as many Pawns, which are to be mov'd and shifted, according...

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

  • DAMPShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAMPS

    a few Hours working, the Maid going down to call her Matter, sound them all in their digging Postures : but stark dead. The Person who managed the Spade, and his Attendant who shovel'd off the Earth, were both on Foot, and seemjngly intent on their...

    • 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

  • ASSENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSENT

    by repeated acts. See HABIT and HABITUATION. To this belongs faith, which is an assent arising from the authority of the person who speaks: Such also is opinion, which is defined as an assent of the mind cum formidine oppositi, etc. See FAITH, OPINION,...

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

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    and take Cognizance of Appeals from them. See APPEAL, etc. Assize, was also a Court or Assembly, composed of several great Persons of the Realm; held occasionally in the King’s Palace, for the final Decision of all Affairs of Importance. See COURT,...

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

  • ASYLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASYLUM

    Servius derives it from the Greek ἄσυλος; which is compounded of the privative particle ἀ-, and συλάω, to seize; because no Person could be taken out of an Asylum without Sacrilege. See SACRILEGE. The first Asylums were established at Athens, by the...

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

  • 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

  • AUDITORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITOR

    Notaries are also frequently call’d AUDITORES. AUDITOR, in our law, is an officer of the king, or some other great person, who yearly, by examining the accounts of under officers accountable, makes up a general book, with the difference between their...

    • 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

  • 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

  • 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
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