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  • ARTILLERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTILLERY

    ARTILLERY,the heavy Equipage of War; comprehending all sorts of great Fire-arms with their Appurtenances, as Cannons, Mortars, Bombs, Petards, Muscats, Carbines, &c. See CANNON, MORTAR, GUN, PETARD, &c. In this Sense, the Word Artillery coincides with...

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

  • ANTICHRISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICHRIST

    ANTICHRIST, or Antichrist, Antichristus, among Divines, etc., a Tyrant who is to reign on Earth, toward the end of the World; for the ultimate Proof of the Elect; and to give a shining Instance of the Divine Vengeance, before the last Judgment. The Word...

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

  • ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE

    ACCEPTANCE, Acceptio, Acceptatio, in matters of Law, refers to agreeing or consenting to some act already done, which, without such consent, might have been undone or rendered invalid. The acceptance of a donation is necessary for its validity and is a...

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

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

    AMBER-GREASE, Ambergrease, Amber-Grise, Ambarum, a fragrant drug, that melts almost like wax; commonly of a greyish or ash-color, used both as a perfume and a cordial. It is found on the sea-coasts, in several countries; as along the southern and...

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

  • ASTRONOMICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMICAL

    ASTRONOMICAL, something that relates to Astronomy. See ASTRONOMY. Astronomical Observations. See CÆLESTIAL OBSERVATIONS. The Astronomical Observations of the ancients, among which those of Hipparchus make a principal figure, are preserved by Ptolemy in...

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

  • ACONITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACONITE

    ACONITE, Aconitum, a plant famous among the Ancients, both in quality of a Poison and a Remedy. See POISON. The ancient Botanists give the name Aconite to several plants of different kinds. One species they called Lycoctonum, Austerit, Wolfsbane, or...

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

  • ARABICIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABICI

    ARABICI were also a kind of heretics, who sprang up in Arabia, about the year 207; whose distinguishing tenet was that the soul died with the body, and also rose again with it. See RESURRECTION. Eusebius, lib. vi. c.38, relates that a council was called...

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

  • ANGULARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGULAR

    ANGULAR, something that relates to, or hath, Angles. See ANGLE. Angular Objects at a distance appear round; the little Inequalities disappearing at a much less distance than the Bulk of the Body. See VISION. Angular Motion, is a compound kind of Motion,...

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

  • ANNULARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNULAR

    ANNULAR, Annularis, something that relates to, or resembles, a Ring, by the Latins called Anulus. See RING. Annular Protuberance, is a Process of the Medulla Oblongata; thus called by Dr. Willis, in regard it surrounds the same, much like a Ring. See...

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

  • ARTERIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTERIAL

    ARTERIAL, or Arterious,in Anatomy, something that relates to the Arteries. See ARTERY. The arterial Blood is supposed more warm, florid, and spirituous than the venal. See BLOOD. The Ancients gave the Name Vena Arteriosa, to the Tube or Canal whereby...

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

  • ASARABACKAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASARABACKA

    ASARABACKA, or Assana-Bacara, a Plant mentioned by Pliny and Dioscorides, under the Name of theWild Nardus; by us called Asanum. Avicenna relates, that it is brought from Chind; that itsRoots resemble those of Gramen, or Dog’s-Tooth; but thatit has a...

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

  • ALIMENTARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALIMENTARY

    ALIMENTARY, Alimentarius, something that relates to Aliment, or Food. See FOOD.The ancient Physicians hold that every Humour consists of two Parts; an Alimentary, and an Excrementitious one. See HUMOUR, and EXCREMENT.Alimentary Duct, Ductus Alimentalis,...

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

  • 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...

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

  • AMPHIBIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMPHIBIOUS

    AMPHIBIOUS, in Natural History, a Term applied to a sort of Animals which live both on Land, and in the Water; that is, which breathe the Air, but pass part of their Time in the Water, as affording 'em their chief Food. See ANIMAL. Such are the Frog,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ACCLAMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCLAMATION

    ACCLAMATION is a confused noise or shout of joy by which the public express their applause, esteem, or approbation of anything. These were formerly used in churches as well as theaters, and the bishops and other ecclesiastical officers were elected by...

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

  • ADMINISTRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMINISTRATION

    ADMINISTRATION, the government, or direction of affairs; particularly the exercise of distributive justice.See GOVERNMENT and JUSTICE. Indolent princes confide the administration of public affairs to their ministers. See MINISTER. Civil wars are usually...

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

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    ART, Ars, is defined by the Schoolmen, a habit of the mind operative or effective according to right reason; or, somewhat more intelligibly, a habit of the mind prescribing rules for the due production of certain effects; or the introducing of changes...

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

  • ALCHYMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCHYMY

    ALCHYMY, or Alchemy, a higher or more refined kind of Chemistry, employed in the more mysterious Researches of the Art. See CHEMISTRY. The Word is compounded of the Arabic Particle of Augmentation, Al, and the Latin Chymia, Egyptian Kenia, or Greek...

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

  • Vice-ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/Vice-ADMIRAL

    Vice-ADMIRAL. See VICE-ADMIRAL. Vice-ADMIRAL is also an officer appointed by the Lord High Admiral, in various parts of the kingdom, with judges and marshals subordinate to him; for the exercising of jurisdiction in maritime affairs, within their...

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