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  • ASSOCIATION OF IDEAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSOCIATION%20OF%20IDEAS

    ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS,is where two or more Ideas, constantly and immediately follow or succeed one another in the Mind, so that one shall almost infallibly produce the other; whether there be any natural Relation between them, or not. See IDEA. Where...

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

  • ALNAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALNAGE

    ALNAGE, or Aulnag, a.k.a. Ell-measure; the measuring of woollen Manufactures with an Ell; and the other Functions of the Alnager. See ALNAGER.The Word is French; formed of Aune, or Alne, an Ell.See ELL.All our Laws relating to the Alnage, Sir J. Child...

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

  • ALNAGERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALNAGER

    ALNAGER, Aulnager, or AULNEGER, q. d. a Measurer by the Ell; signifies a sworn public Officer, who, by himself or Deputy, is to look to the Assize of woollen Cloth made through the Land, i.e., the Length, Width, and Quality thereof; and to the Seals for...

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

  • ALMAGESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMAGEST

    ALMAGEST, the Name of a celebrated Book, composed by Ptolemy; being a Collection of many of the Observations and Problems of the Ancients, relating both to Geometry and Astronomy. In the Original Greek it was called syvTagsis yezisn, q. de Greatest...

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

  • AGITATORShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/AGITATORS

    AGITATORS, in our English affairs, were certain officers, created by the Army in 1647, to take care of the interests thereof.Cromwell leagued himself with the Agitators, Whom he found to have more interest than the Council of War. The Agitators...

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

  • ADVENTUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVENTURE

    ADVENTURE, an extraordinary and surprising enterprise or accident, either real or fictitious. See FABLE. Novels, romances, etc. are chiefly taken up in relating the adventures of cavaliers, lovers, etc. See NOVEL and ROMANCE. The word is French and...

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

  • ARVALES FRATREShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARVALES%20FRATRES

    ARVALES FRATRES,were Priests in ancient Rome, who assisted in the Sacrifices of the Ambarvalia offered every Year to Ceres and Bacchus for the Prosperity of the Fruits of the Earth, viz. of the Corn and Wine. See PRIEST and AMBARVALIA, &c. They were...

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

  • AERIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AERIAL

    AERIAL, AERIUS, something that consists of Air, or has a relation or resemblance to Air. See AIR. The Essenes, the most refined and rational Sect among the Jews, held that the human Soul consisted of an aerial Matter. See ESSENES. Angels or Spirits,...

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

  • APOLOGUEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOLOGUE

    APOLOGUE, Ἀπόλογος, a moral Fable; or a feigned Relation, intended to inform, and amend the Manners. See FABLE. Such are the Fables of Aesop; whence, moral Fables are usually denominated Aesopic Fables. Julius Scaliger derives the Name from ἀπό (apo),...

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

  • AGENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AGENT

    AGENT, Agents, in Physics, refers to something by which an action is done or effected; or which has the power to act upon another and by its action induces some change in the other. See ACT and ACTION. The word Agent is used interchangeably with...

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

  • APOTHEOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/APOTHEOSIS

    APOTHEOSIS, in Antiquity, a Heathen Ceremony, whereby their Emperors and great Men were placed among the Gods. See GOD. After the Apotheosis, which they also called Deification and Consecration; Temples and Altars were erected to the new Deity, and...

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

  • Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A

    A Vowel, and the first Letter of the English Alphabet. See LETTER, VOWEL, and ALPHABET ; where what relates to A, consider'd in each of those Capacities, is delivered. The Grammarians will needs have A the first Letter in all Languages ; and some of...

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

  • CHESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game/CHESS

    CHESS, a fashionable Game, perform'd with little round Pieces of Wood, on a Board divided into 64 Squares; where Art and Address are so indispensibly requisite, that Chance seems to have no place; and a Person never loses but by his own Fault. On each...

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

  • ALMONDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMOND

    ALMOND, Amygdala, a kind of Fruit, enclosed with a thick Stone, and under a thin Skin. See FRUIT. The Almond is the Produce of a pretty tall Tree, resembling a Peach Tree; frequent in Germany, France, and the neighbouring Countries; as also in Barbary,...

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

  • ANIMALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL

    ANIMAL, a Being, which, besides the Power of growing, increasing, and producing its like, which Vegetables likewise have, is further endowed with Sensation, and spontaneous Motion. See BEING, SENSATION, and MOTION. The Word Animal is derived from the...

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

  • ARABIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABIC

    ARABIC, Arabicus, something that relates to Arabia, or the Arabs. Arabic, or Arabic Language, is a Branch or Dialect of the Hebrew. See LANGUAGE and HEBREW. Father Angelo de St. Joseph speaks much of the Beauty and Copiousness of the Arabic. He assures...

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

  • AZYMUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZYMUS

    AZYMUS, something not fermented, or that is without leaven. See FERMENT and LEAVEN. The term azymus is much used in the disputes betwixt those of the Greek and Romish Church; the latter of whom contend, that the bread in the mass ought to be azymus,...

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

  • ANNATEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNATES

    ANNATES, Annates, Annata, the same with Primitiae or First-fruits; so called from the Latin Annus, Year, because the Rate of First-fruits, paid for spiritual Livings, is after the Value of one Year's Purchase. See PRIMITIAE and FIRST-FRUITS. Annates...

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

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

    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...

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

  • ANOMALOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANOMALOUS

    ANOMALOUS, q.d. Irregular; something that deviates from the ordinary Rule and Method of other things of the same kind. See RULE, etc. The Word is not compounded of the privative α, and νόμος, Nomos, Law, as is usually imagined; for whence, on such a...

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