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  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    Courts; and that they were called Assizes, because anciently tried at special Courts of Assize, set and appointed for that Purpose.—Though, of later Days, they are dispatched at the general sizes, along with the Commissions of Oyer and Terminer. This...

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

  • ARBOURhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARBOUR

    Arbours, and cabinets are made of latticework, borne up by standards, cross-rails, circles and arches of iron. For which purpose they make use of small fillets of oak, which being planed and made straight, are wrought in checkers, and fastened with...

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

  • ANTHEMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHEM

    Antiphona, a Church-Song, performed in Cathedral, and other Service, by the Choristers, divided for that purpose into two Choruses, who sing alternately. See SONG, CHOIR, etc. The Word was originally used both for Psalms, and Hymns, when thus performed....

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

  • ANCYLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANCYLE

    were preserved in the Temple of Mars; and were committed to the Care of twelve Priests or Salii, instituted for that purpose. See SALII. They were carried every Year, in the Month of March, in procession around Rome; and the 30th Day of that Month, were...

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

  • ADDICEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDICE

    more convenient for cutting the hollow side of any board or timber; being what the coopers generally make use of for that purpose. ADDICE

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

  • AUDIThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/AUDIT

    a regular hearing and examining of an account, by officers appointed for that purpose. See AUDITOR and ACCOUNT. AUDIT

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • ASHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASHES

    the Substance of the Dispute under the Article Metal. Ashes,are of considerable Use in making Lixiviums, or Lyes, for the Purposes of Medicine, Bleaching, Sugar-Works, etc. See LIXIVIUM; see also BARILLA, etc. The Ancientspreserved the Ashes of their...

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

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    The word is formed of the Greek ἀρχή, beginnings; whenceἄρχων, princeps, summus. In English we usually, though to very ill purpose; the words wherewith joined, sounding much harsher on that score than would do were it preserved entire, as it is in most...

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

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    poets were unacquainted with this division of a play into Acts; though their Episodes or Choruses served almost the same purpose. See EPISODE and CHORUS. It is true, they considered their pieces as consisting of certain parts or divisions, which they...

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