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  • AUDITORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITORY

    belonging to the sense of hearing. See HEARING. AUDITORY, AUDIENCE, is also a collective name, denoting an assembly of persons, hearing, or attending to a person who speaks in public. See ASSEMBLY, ORATION, etc. AUDITORY is also used for the seat or...

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

  • ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT

    Magnitude and Humanity are Abstracts when consider'd in themselves, and without being attached to any particular Body, or Person ; tho they cannot have any real Subsistence without such Subjects, nor the Subjects without them. Thus, also, Whiteness is...

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

  • ANATHEMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANATHEMA

    one Judicatory, the other Abjuratory. The former can only be pronounced by a Council, a Pope, Bishop, or other qualified Person; and differs from a simple Excommunication in this, that an Excommunication only prohibits the Criminal from entering within...

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

  • ABATEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ABATEMENT

    Coat-Armour to diminish its proper Value and Dignity, and note some dishonourable Action, or Stain in the Character of the Person who bears it. See ARMS. 'Tis a little controverted among Authors, whether Heraldry allows of any such thing as regular...

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

  • AUXILIARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUXILIARY

    of their signifying: So that to supply this defect, recourse is had to different auxiliary verbs. See TERMINATION, TENSE, PERSON, etc. The auxiliary am supplies the want of passives in our language. See PASSIVE. Besides the perfect auxiliary verbs, we...

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

  • 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

  • ACCESSORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSORY

    Sense, the Word stands opposed to Principal. See PRINCIPAL. Accessory, or Accessary, in Common Law, is chiefly used for a Person guilty of a felonious Offence; not principally, but by Participation; as, by Advice, Command, or Concealment. See FELONY....

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

  • ANECDOTEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANECDOTES

    Affairs and Transactions of Princes; speaking with too much Freedom, or too much Sincerity, of the Manner and Conduct of Persons in Authority, to allow of being made public. Herein they imitate Procopius, who gives this Title to a Book which he...

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

  • 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

  • ARCHIMIMEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHIMIME

    Archimimus, is the same thing, ineffect, with arch-buffoon. The archimimes, among the Romans, were persons whoimitated the manners, gestures, and speech both of theliving and the dead. See MIME. At first they were only employed on the theatre; but...

    • 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

  • 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

  • ARMINIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMINIANS

    taught, that God elected the Faithful out of a Foreknowledge of their Faith: But Episcopius, and others, think he elects no Person from all Eternity, and only elects the Faithful, at the Time when they actually believe. They speak very ambiguously of...

    • 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
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