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  • ALLOTTINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce/ALLOTTING

    or Allotment of Goods, in Matters of Commerce, is when a Ship's Cargo is divided into several Parts, to be bought by divers Persons, whose Names are Wrote on as many Pieces of Paper, which are applied by an indifferent Person to the several Lots or...

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

  • ANTIPTOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ANTIPTOSIS

    one Case is put for another. See CASE. The Word comes from the Greek ἀντί, pro, and πτῶσις, Case. ANTIQUARY, Antiquarius, a Person who studies and searches after Monuments and Remains of the Ancients; as, old Medals, old Books, old Statues, Sculptures,...

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

  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    inflection of voice, or a peculiar tone and manner of pronunciation, contracted from the country or province where a person was bred. See VOICE and PRONUNCIATION. In this sense, we say the Welsh tone or accent, the Northern accent, the Gascon accent,...

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

  • APOSTLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTLE

    a Gourd-Bottle; St. Simon, with a Saw; and St. Thaddaeus, with a Club. The Word Apostle, Ἀπόστολος, originally signifies a Person delegated or sent; from the Verb ἀποστέλλω (apostellō), to send. In this Sense it occurs in Herodotus, and other profane...

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

  • ALMONERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMONER

    DEODAND.He had likewise, by an ancient Custom, a Privilege to give the first Dish from the Royal Table, to whatsoever poor Person, he pleased, or, instead thereof, an Alms, in Money.He also distributes daily to 24 poor Men, nominated by the Parishioners...

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

  • ANAGRAMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGRAM

    Combination thereof in some new manner, so as to exhibit one or more Words, either to the Advantage or Disadvantage of the Person to whom it belongs. See NAME. The Word is formed from the Greek ἀναγράμματα (anagrammata), I write backwards. Thus, the...

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

  • ADVOCATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADVOCATE

    Advocatus, among the Romans, a person skilled in their law, and who undertook the defense of causes at the bar. See LAW. The word is compounded of ad, and voco, i.e. I call to my aid, or defense. The Roman Advocates answered to one part of the office of...

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

  • ACCUSATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCUSATION

    of the Publick. See ACTION, and CRIMINAL. By the Roman Law, there was no publick Accuser for publick Crimes; every private Person, whether interested in the Crime or not, might accuse, and prosecute the Accused to Punishment or Absolution. But the...

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

  • ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN

    on Alexander at his Recovery from an Illness, and discoursing with him as he walked about. See PERIPATETIC. He was a Person of admirable Genius, and of great and various Learning: Averroes makes no Scruple to call him 'the Genius of Nature, the Limit of...

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

  • AUTHORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHOR

    is held the author of the dogma of Metempsychosis. See METEMPSYCHOSIS, etc. AUTHOR, in matters of literature, is a person who has written or composed some book, or writing. See BOOK, WRITING, etc. Thus we say the sacred authors; anonymous authors,...

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

  • ANNUITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUITY

    between a Rent and an Annuity consists in this, that Rent is payable out of Land; whereas an Annuity charges only the Person of the Grantor. See RENT, WRIT, ACTION, etc. Add, that annuities are never taken for Assets; as being no Freeholds in Law. See...

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

  • ATCHIEVEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ATCHIEVEMENT

    in Heraldry, the Coat of Arms of any Person or Family; duly marshalled with its external ornaments, as Supporters, Helmet, Wreath, Crest, and Motto. See COAT and ARMS. See also SUPPORTER, HELMET, etc. Such are usually hung out on the Fronts of Houses...

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

  • AMENDE Honorablehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMENDE%20Honorable

    beg pardon of God, the King, or the Court, for some ill deed. The Phrase 'amende honorable' is more peculiarly used where a Person is condemned to come into Court, or into the Presence of some Person injured; and make an open Recantation, etc. AMENDE...

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

  • ASSASSINhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSASSIN

    a Person who kills another with the Advantage either of an Inequality in the Weapons, or by meansof the Situation of the Place, or by attacking him at unawares. See MURDER, DUEL, etc. The Word Assassin is said, by some, to have been brought from the...

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

  • ASSIGNEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSIGNEE

    in Law,a Person to whom a Thing is appointed, or assigned, to be occupied, paid, or done. See ASSIGN. An Assignee differs from a Deputy in this, that the Assignee possesses or enjoys the thing in his own Right, and a Deputy in the Right of another. See...

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

  • ATTACHINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTACHING

    or ATTACHMENT, in law, the taking or apprehending a person or thing by commandment or writ. See COMMANDMENT and WRIT. The word is formed of the French attacher, to fasten, tie; and that from the corrupt Latin attachiare, of attexere, to weave to; or...

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

  • ANCESTORShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCESTORS

    Progenitors; or those from whom a Person is descended. See PROGENITOR. The Word is derived from the Latin Ancestor, wrote, by Contraction, for Antecessor, gone before. The Law distinguishes between Ancestor and Predecessor; the former being applied to a...

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

  • ABDICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ABDICATION

    the Act whereby a Magistrate, or Person in Office renounces and gives up the same, for himself and his Heirs. See RENUNCIATION. Abdication is frequently confounded with Resignation ; but, strictly speaking, there is a difference : Abdication being done...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • ARCHPRIESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHPRIEST

    established in some dioceses, with a pre-eminence over the rest. See PRIEST. Anciently, the archpriest was the first person after thebishop, and even acted as his vicar, in his absence, as toall spiritual concerns. In the sixth century, there...

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

  • ARCHBISHOPhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHBISHOP

    in the East, till about the year 320; and though there were some soon after this who had the title, yet that was only a personal honor by which the bishops of considerable cities were distinguished. It was not until later that archbishops became...

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