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  • AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE

    formed their nests.—This opinion has something of experience on its side, and begins now to be generally allowed; several persons having seen pieces that were half Ambergrease, and half plain honey-comb: and others, again, having pieces of Ambergrease,...

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

  • ABBEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBEY

    that in the early Days of the French Monarchy, Dukes and Counts were call'd Abbots, and Duchies and Counties Abbies. Many Persons of the prime Quality, without any Concern in the Monastic Life, took the same Quality ; even some of their Kings are...

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

  • ALLEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening/ALLEY

    and GRAVEL-WALK. An Alley is distinguished from a Path, in this; that in an Alley there must always be room enough for two Persons, at least, to walk abreast: So that it must never be less than five Feet in breadth; and there are some who hold that it...

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

  • AZUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZURE

    blue color of the skies. See BLUE, COLOR, SKY, etc. Azure, in heraldry, signifies a blue color, in the coats of arms of all persons under the degree of a baron. See COLOR. In the escutcheons of noblemen, blue is called Saphir; and in those of sovereign...

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

  • ASSIGNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSIGN

    making over a Right to another. See ASSIGNEE. In this Sense we say, such Lands or Estate were assigned or affected to such Persons for such Uses, etc. See AFFECTION, etc. In the Stat. 20 Edw. I. we read of Justices assigned to take Assizes, etc. See...

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

  • ASCETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCETIC

    Ascetes, an ancient Name for such Persons, as in the primitive Times devoted themselves to the Exercises of Piety and Virtue in a retired Life; and particularly to Prayer and Mortification. See SOLITARY. Afterwards, when the Monks came in fashion, this...

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

  • ANNUALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUALIA

    yearly Oblations anciently made by the Relations of deceased Persons, on the Day of their Death; See OBLATION. This Day they called Year-day, etc., and on it, Mass was celebrated with great Solemnity. See ANNIVERSARY.

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

  • AUDIENDOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDIENDO

    & TERMINANDO, a writ, or rather a commission, directed to certain persons, when an insurrection or great misdemeanour is committed in any place, for the appeasing and punishment thereof. AUDIENDO

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

  • ACCRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCRETION

    Law, a vague or vacant portion of ground, joined or united with grounds held or possessed by another. A legacy given to two persons jointly, tam re quam verbis, goes wholly to him that survives the testator, by right of accretion. Alluvion is another...

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

  • ACOLYTHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ACOLYTHES

    ACOLYTHES, Acolythi, in Antiquity, a Term applied to such Persons as were steady and immovable in their Resolutions. For this Reason, the Stoics were called Acolythes; in regard, nothing could shake or alter their Resolves. See STOIC. Among...

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

  • DEFORCEORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DEFORCEOR

    Man may disseise without Force. Secondly, in that a Man may deforce another that never was in Possession, as where several Persons have a Right to Lands, as common Heirs, and one entring first, keeps out the rest. See DISSEISOR.Again, a Deforceor...

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

  • ADULTERINEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADULTERINE

    adulterous affair, or commerce. See ADULTERY. Adulterine children are more odious than the illegitimate offspring of single persons—The Roman Law even denies them the title of natural children, as if nature disowned them. See BASTARDY. ADULTERINE

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

  • ABSTEMIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTEMIOUS

    is properly understood of such Persons as refrain absolutely from Wine. Pliny more expresly says, Vini abstemius ; and Apuleius, Invinius. In the Religious Sense of the Word, they are said to be Abstemious, who in the Sacrament of the Supper cannot...

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

  • APHRONITREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APHRONITRE

    red are the least dangerous, and the most easily cured; the livid and black often prove mortal. When they happen in grown Persons, they are owing to thin, serous, and sharp Humours returned from the several parts of the Body to the Mouth. A Liniment of...

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

  • APPOINTMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPOINTMENT

    a Pension or Salary given by great Lords and Princes, to Persons of Worth and Parts; in order to retain them in their Service. See SALARY. The Term is chiefly used among the French. The King of France gives large Appointments to several of the Officers...

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

  • ARBITRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARBITRATION

    or Arbitrament, the referring of a cause or quarrel to the decision of one or more indifferent persons under the quality and denomination of arbiters, or arbitrators. See ARBITER and ARBITRATION. Among us, two arbitrators are usually chosen by the...

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

  • ARTERIOTOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTERIOTOMY

    would be very difficult in any other Part.—In the other Parts it usually proves fatal; and we have numerous Instances of Persons killed in Bleeding, by a Mistake of an Artery for a Vein. Catherwood endeavours to introduce Arteriotomy in apoplectic...

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

  • ASSOCIATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSOCIATION

    sent by the King, either of his own Motion, or at the Suit of the Party Plaintiff, to the Justices of Assize; to have other Persons associated to them, in order to take the Assize. See PATENT and ASSIZE. Upon this Patent of Association, the King sends...

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

  • ARISTOCRACYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOCRACY

    where the supreme Power is lodged in the Hands of the Optimates, i.e. a Council or Senate composed of the principal Persons of a State, either in respect of Nobility, Capacity, or Probity. See GOVERNMENT and OPTIMATES. The ancient Writers of Politics...

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

  • ARGYRASPIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARGYRASPIDES

    in Antiquity, Persons armed with Silver Bucklers, or Bucklers silvered. See BUCKLER. The Argyraspides, according to Quintus Curtius, Lib. iv. c. 13, made the second Corps of Alexander's Army, the first were the Phalanx. See PHALANX. According to...

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