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  • ADVOWEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVOWEE

    GUARDIAN, etc. It appears also, from the most ancient charters, that the donations made to Churches, were conferred on the persons of the Advowees. They always pleaded the causes of the Churches in court, and distributed justice for them, in the places...

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

  • AERIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AERIANS

    AERIANS, in Antiquity, a Sect in Religion, denominated from Aerius; a Person alive in the Time of St. Epiphanius. The Aerians had much the same Sentiments, in respect of the Trinity, as the Arians; besides which, they had some Dogmas of their own, and...

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

  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    principal Part of Algebra is the Consideration of broken Numbers. Others rather borrow it from the Spanish Algebrista, a Person who re-places dislocated Bones; adding, that Algebra has nothing to do with Fractions; in that it considers broken Numbers as...

    • 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

  • ANGARIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ANGARIA

    any troublesome, or vexatious Duty or Service, paid by the Tenant to the Lord.—The Word is formed of the French Angarie, Personal Service; that which a Man is bound to perform in his own Person.—Prestationes Angariarum & Periangariarum plaustrorum &...

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

  • ATHEISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHEIST

    Ἄθεος, a Person who denies the Deity; who does not believe the existence of a God, nor a Providence; and who has no Religion, true nor false. See GOD, PROVIDENCE, RELIGION. In general, a Man is said to be an Atheist who owns no Being superior to Nature,...

    • 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

  • ATTORNEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTORNEY

    Attornatus, in law, a person appointed by another to do something in his stead; particularly to solicit and carry on a lawsuit. See AGENT, DEPUTY, etc. See also CAUSE, PROCESS, ACTION, etc. Attorneys in common law are much the same with Procurators,...

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

  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    Adulterium, in our ancient law-books called Advowtry, a crime committed by married persons, against the faith pledged to each other in marriage; by having carnal commerce with someone else: or even by a person not married; by having to do with another...

    • 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

  • 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

  • ABELIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABELIANS

    that HEBREW Thabala, in Arabic, came to signify, to abstain from one's Wife. He concludes, that he is the most mistaken Person in the World, or the Story had reach'd Africa, and given occasion both to the Sect, and the Name. 'Tis true, the Rabbins do...

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

  • ACCEPTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCEPTOR

    ACCEPTOR, of a bill of exchange, the person who accepts the bill. See ACCEPTANCE. The acceptor becomes a personal debtor by the acceptance; and is obliged to pay it, though the drawer fails before it becomes due. See EXCHANGE. ACCEPTOR

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

  • 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
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