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  • APOBATERIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOBATERION

    among the Ancients, signified a farewell Speech, or Poem; occasioned by a Person's departure out of his own Country, or some other place where he had been kindly received and entertained. Such is that of Aeneas to Helenus and Andromache, En. Lib. III....

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

  • APPROPRIATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROPRIATION

    the Act of appropriating, or applying a Church-Benefice, which of its own Nature is jus divini, and no Person’s Patrimony, to the proper and perpetual Use of some Religious Community. See APPROPRIATE. Appropriation is where the Advowson of a Parsonage...

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

  • ACROSTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACROSTIC

    a kind of poetical composition, the verses whereof are disposed in such a manner, as that the initial letters make up some person's name, title, or a particular motto. See POEM and POETRY. The word is derived from the Greek ἄκρος, summit, that which is...

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

  • Theologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology

    THEOLOGY, or the Consideration of GOD: his Nature and Attributes, as Eternity, Ubiquity, &c. His Unity, Trinity, &c. Persons, Hypostasis. &c. Our Duty to him, discover'd by Inspiration, Revelation, Prophecy, &c. by the Mesiah, Evangelisis, Apostles,...

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  • Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A

    not the less true for being a Paradox. See ASPIRATE, and CONSONANT. Of all the Letters, A is observ'd to be that which dumb Persons are soonest taught to pronounce. The Reason is, that it does not depend on the Muscles, and other Organs of the Mouth,...

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

  • ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT

    Assistances of his Monastery ; and he remain'd Hill in obedience to the Bishop. There being among the Abbots several Persons of Learning, they made a vigorous Opposition to the rising Heresies of those Times ; which first occasion'd the Bishops to call...

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

  • AGUEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGUE

    of the under Jaw. A Vernal Ague is easily cured; but an Autumnal one is more obstinate, especially in aged and cachectic Persons;if complicated with a Dropsy, Peripneumony, etc., dangerous. When an Ague proves fatal, it is usually in the cold Fit. The...

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

  • ANAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANA

    into the Titles of several Books in other Languages——Ana’s, or Books in Ana, are Collections of the memorable Sayings of Persons of Learning, and Wit; much the same with what we otherwise call Table Talk. Wolfius has given the History of Books in Ana,...

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

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    the Birds, and as many for the Beasts: His Reason is, that if we suppose a greater Number, as 333 or 400, each of the eight Persons in the Ark must have had 37, 41, or 50 Stalls to attend and cleanse daily, which he thinks impossible. But there is not...

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

  • ANIMALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL

    though among Naturalists, etc., animals are usually restrained to Irrationals. St. Augustine relates, that many scrupulous persons in his Time, extended that Prohibition of the Law, "Thou shalt not kill," to all Animals: They grounded their Opinion on...

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

  • ARSENIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARSENIC

    See REFINING. A single grain of Arsenic will turn a pound of copper into a beautiful seeming silver. This hint many persons have endeavored to improve on, for the making of Silver, but in vain, as it could never be brought to sustain the Hammer: Some...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    decry Antimony: in his Letters we find an unusual Vehemence expressed against it—He had even compiled a large Register of Persons whom the Physicians had killed by it, which he called the Martyrology of Antimony. Crude Antimony, or Antimony in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • APOPLEXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/APOPLEXY

    inside the Cranium, pressing the Vessels; or a Polypus, blocking up the Carotids, etc. See BRAIN. In dissecting Persons dead hereof, clotted extravasated Blood is usually found in one or both Ventricles of the Brain. See Philosophical Transactions, No....

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

  • ASBESTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ASBESTOS

    Archipelago, the Pyrenees, and from Montauban in France. We have also seen Instances of it in Scotland, Wales, &c. Several Persons have pretended to the Secret of spinning the Asbestos: G. Porra assures, that in his Time, ‘twas a thing known to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ALLEGORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLEGORY

    the Poets had introduced into their Religion; and to convince the World, that the Gods of Greece had not been those vile Persons which their Histories represented them to be. By this means, the History, as well as the Religion of Greece, was at once...

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

  • ALMANACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMANACK

    of 1579, that 'No Almanack-Maker should presume to give Predictions relating to Civil Affairs, either of States or private Persons, in Terms either express or covert,’ See ASTROLOGY. In the Philosoph. Collec. we have a perpetual Almanack described by...

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

  • AREOPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AREOPAGUS

    year. By an inscription quoted by Volateranus, itappears they were then 300. At first this tribunal only consisted of nine persons, who had all discharged the office of Archons. Their salarywas equal, and paid out of the treasury of the republic. They...

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

  • ACADEMICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMICKS

    or rather Academists, is also used among us for the Members of the modern Academies, or instituted Societies of learned Persons. See ACADEMY. ACADEMICKS

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

  • ASPIRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPIRATION

    and the People, and among the same People, according to Time and Custom; and even according to the Fancy of particular Persons.—Thus, some, for instance, write the Aspirates, or Letters aspirated; which, by others, are omitted; though both the one and...

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

  • APOTHEOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/APOTHEOSIS

    ALTAR, SACRIFICE, etc. It was one of the Doctrines of Pythagoras, which he had borrowed from the Chaldeans; that virtuous Persons, after their Death, were raised into the Order of the Gods. See PYTHAGOREANS. And hence the Ancients deified all the...

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