Cyclopædia
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AUTOMATONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTOMATON
AUTOMATON, or AUTOMATUM; a self-moving engine, or a machine which has the principle of motion within itself. See MACHINE and MOTION. Such were Archytas’s dove, mentioned by Aulus Gellius, Noct. Att. L.10., and Regiomontanus’s wooden eagle, which, as...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABSURDITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ABSURDITY
ABSURDITY, Absurdities, is a kind of Error, or Offense against some evident, and generally allowed Truths or Principle. See ERROR, MAXIM, &c. The greatest of all Absurdities is the Contradiction. See CONTRADICTION. The Schoolmen make two Species of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Logics
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AGGREGATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGGREGATE
AGGREGATE, the sum, or result of several things aggregated or added together. See ACCRETION, and SUM.Natural bodies are Aggregates, or Assemblages of Particles or Corpuscles, bound together by the Principle of Attraction. See BODY, PARTICLE, &c.The word...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AGONOCLITAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AGONOCLITA
AGONOCLITA, or Agonoclites, in antiquity, a sect in the 7th century; whose distinguishing principle was never to kneel, but to deliver all their prayers standing. See GENUFLEXION. The word is compounded of the privative particle a, gonu, knee, and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ASCODROUTEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCODROUTES
ASCODROUTES,in Antiquity, a Sect of Heretics, in the second Century, who rejected all Use of Sacraments, on this Principle, that incorporeal Things cannot be communicated by Things visible and corporeal. See SACRAMENT. They made perfect Redemption...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACID SPIRITShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID%20SPIRITS
ACID SPIRITS. See ACID. See also PRINCIPLE. ACID SPIRITS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTHROPOPHAGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOPHAGY
ANTHROPOPHAGY, the Act of eating human Flesh. See ANTHROPOPHAGI. Some Authors trace the Original of this barbarous Custom, as high as the Deluge; and attribute it to the Giants. Pliny mentions Scythians and Sauromatians; and Juvenal, Egyptians, who...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASSUMPTIVE Armshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ASSUMPTIVE%20Arms
ASSUMPTIVE Arms, in Heraldry, are such as a Man has a right to assume of himself, in virtue of some Action. See ARMS. As, if a Man who is no Gentleman of Blood, nor Coat Armour, takes a Gentleman, Lord, or Prince, Prisoner in any lawful War; he becomes...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Heraldry