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  • AUGMENTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUGMENTATION

    court was dissolved under Queen Mary, by the parliament held the first year of her reign; but the office of augmentation remains to this day. The court took its name hence, that the revenues of the crown were thought to be much augmented by the...

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

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    AGE, the natural duration of anything; and particularly of the life of man. See DURATION, and LIFE. The ordinary age of mankind has been occasionally varied, in such manner as to afford a fine instance of the wisdom of Providence. See the article...

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

  • AMAZONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AMAZON

    AMAZON, in Antiquity, a Term signifying a bold, courageous Woman; capable of daring, hardy Achievements. See VIRAGO, HEROINE, etc. The Word is borrowed from the Amazons, a Nation of warlike Women, in Scythia, inhabiting near the Tanais; who lived...

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

  • APHELIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APHELION

    APHELION, or Aphelium, in Astronomy, that Point of the Earth’s or a Planet’s Orbit, in which it is the farthest distant from the Sun that it can be. See ORBIT. Thus a Planet being in A, (Tab. Astronomy, fig. 1) its utmost Distance from the Sun S is said...

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

  • ARCHDUKEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHDUKE

    ARCHDUKE, Archidux, a duke vested with somequality, pre-eminence, and authority above other dukes. See DUKE. The Archduke of Austria is a very ancient title. Therehave also been archdukes of Lorraine, and Brabant. Austria was erected into a margraviate...

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

  • ABORTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABORTION

    ABORTION, in Medicine, an immature Exclusion of the Fœtus ; or the Delivery of a Woman with Child, before the legitimate Term ; popularly call'd Miscarriage. See DELIVERY, &c. This may happen at any time of Pregnancy; but is before the second Month...

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

  • ADDITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDITION

    ADDITION, the act of joining one thing to another; or of augmenting a thing by the accession of others thereto. See AUGMENTATION and ACCESSION. In matters of Holy Scripture, it is forbidden to make any addition to the text, for fear of corrupting and...

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

  • ACADEMICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMICKS

    ACADEMICKS, Academici, Academists, a Sect of ancient Philosophers, founded by Plato, and called, also, the Academy. See ACADEMY. The Academicks, in the later Ages, have taken the Name of Platonists. See PLATONIST. The great Dogma of the Academics was...

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

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    ABSTINENCE, Abstinencia, the Habit of restraining or containing one's self from some Pleasure, or Enjoyment. See PLEASURE. The Word is compounded of the Latin abs, from ; and teneo, I hold. The Jews were oblig'd to abstain from their Wives at certain...

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