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  • AMPHIBOLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/AMPHIBOLOGY

    AMPHIBOLOGY, or Amphibolousness, in Grammar, a Fault in Language, whereby it is rendered obscure, and liable to be understood in a double Sense. Amphibology is chiefly used in respect of a Phrase; as Equivoque is in respect of a Word. See EQUIVOQUE, and...

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

  • ANNIVERSARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIVERSARY

    ANNIVERSARY is properly the yearly return of any remarkable day and was anciently called a Year-day or Mind-day, that is, a Memorial-day. See ANNUAL DAY, etc. On some extraordinary occasions, such days have been registered and annually observed in...

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

  • ADJOURNMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADJOURNMENT

    ADJOURNMENT, the putting off a court or meeting;and appointing it to be held at another time or place.See COURT, etc. In this sense, we meet with the phrase Adjournment in Eyre, for an appointment of a day when the Justices in Eyre intend to sit again....

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

  • ACQUITTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ACQUITTANCE

    ACQUITTANCE, or Quittance, a Release, or Discharge in Writing, of a Sum of Money, or other Duty which ought to be paid or done. See RECEIPT.The Verb Acquit, the Participle Acquitted, and the Noun Acquittal, do also signify a Discharge from an Offence...

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

  • ALGEBRAICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRAICAL

    ALGEBRAICAL, something that relates to Algebra. See ALGEBRA.In this Sense, we say, Algebraical Characters, or Symbols. See CHARACTER. Algebraical Curve, is a Curve, wherein the Relation of the Abscissas to the Semiordinates, may be defined by an...

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

  • ACCUMULATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCUMULATION

    ACCUMULATION, the act of heaping or amassing several things together. The word is compounded of ad and cumulus, "heap."The lawyers speak of an accumulation of titles; as, when a person claims lands, a benefice, or the like, in virtue of several titles...

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

  • AUTOCEPHALUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTOCEPHALUS

    AUTOCEPHALUS, a person who is his own chief or master, and has no other over him. See ACEPHALUS. The word is compounded of the Greek αὐτός, ipse; and κεφαλή, head. This denomination was given by the Greeks to certain archbishops, who were exempted from...

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

  • ARCHIMANDRITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHIMANDRITE

    ARCHIMANDRITE, the superior of a monastery; amounting to what we now call abbot. See ABBOT, SUPERIOR, etc. Covarrubias observes, that the word literally denotes the chief or leader of a flock; in which sense it may be applied to any ecclesiastical...

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

  • ANTIMONARCHICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIMONARCHICAL

    ANTIMONARCHICAL, something that opposes or stands against Monarchy, or Kingly Government. See MONARCHY. Antimonarchical is frequently used in the sense of Republican. See REPUBLIC. ANTIMONARCHICAL

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

  • ANTHROPOCOMORPHITEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOCOMORPHITE

    ANTHROPOCOMORPHITE, one who attributes to God, the Figure of a Man. See GOD, etc. Anthropomorphites were a Sect of ancient Heretics, who, out of a too great Simplicity, taking everything spoken of God in the Scriptures in a literal Sense, imagined He...

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