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  • ANIMAL SECRETIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20SECRETION

    Existence has never been fairly proved. As it is hard to define what could never yet be brought under the Judgment of our Senses, all that we shall here offer concerning them, is, that they must needs be extremely subtle Bodies, which escape all manner...

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

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    relating to Animals, their Number, Analogous Structure, Sagacity, Instinct, etc. See ANUS, HEART, NECK, TAIL, FEET, SENSES, INSTINCT, etc. Animals consist of Solids, or firm parts, as Flesh, Bones, Membranes, etc., and Fluids, as Blood, etc.:The Solids...

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

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    acting by different laws; and only agreeing in this, that we do not see any physical causes thereof; but that, as to our senses, they may really arise from some power or efficacy in such bodies, whereby they are enabled to act, even upon distant bodies;...

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

  • ACATALEPSIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACATALEPSIA

    no further than to Appearances and Verisimilitude. See PYRRHONIAN, SCEPTIC, and ACADEMY. They declaimed much against the Senses; and charged them with a principal Hand in reducing and leading us into Error. See SENSE, ERROR, TRUTH, FALSHOOD, DOUBTING,...

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

  • ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID

    ACID, Acidum, anything which affects the Tongue with a Sense of Sharpness, and Sourness. See TASTE.Acids are usually divided into manifest and dubious.The Manifest Acids are those above defined, which impress the Idea sensibly. — Such are Vinegar, and...

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

  • ACUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACUTE

    ACUTE, sharp, something that terminates in a Point, or an Edge; disposed either for piercing or cutting. See POINT, EDGE, etc. In this sense, the word usually stands opposed to Obtuse.See OBTUSE. Acute Angle, is that which is less than a right angle;or...

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

  • AMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMEN

    AMEN, a Church Term, used as the Conclusion of all solemn Prayers, &c. and signifying, so be it, or fiat. The Hebrews had four kinds of Amen — That just mentioned they called Amen past; which was accompanied with the greatest Attention, and Devotion: In...

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

  • AShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AS

    AS,among Antiquaries, has two different Significations. 1° It signifies a Weight; and in this Sense the Roman As is the same with the Roman Libra; or Pound. See Weight, Libra, Pound, &c. The As had several Divisions.—The principal were, the Uncia, or...

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

  • AXIOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIOM

    AXIOM, ἀξίωμα, a self-evident truth; or a proposition whose truth every person perceives at first sight. See TRUTH and PROPOSITION. Thus, that the whole is greater than a part; that a thing cannot give what itself has not; that a thing cannot be and not...

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

  • ACTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTIVE

    ACTIVE, Activus, something that communicates Motion, or Action to another. See ACTION. In this sense, the word stands opposed to Passive. See PASSIVE. Thus, we say, an Active Cause, Active Principles, &c.See CAUSE. The Quantity of Motion in the World,...

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

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

    ADMIRAL, Admiratus, Admiralty, a great officer, who commands the naval forces of a kingdom or state; and before whom all causes are cognizable, relating to the sea. See NAVY, SEA, etc.Authors are divided about the origin and denomination of this...

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

  • AUDITORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITORY

    AUDITORY, something belonging to the sense of hearing. See HEARING. AUDITORY, AUDIENCE, is also a collective name, denoting an assembly of persons, hearing, or attending to a person who speaks in public. See ASSEMBLY, ORATION, etc. AUDITORY is also used...

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

  • ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT

    ABSTRACT, ABSTRACTUM, in Philosophy, that which Mind called Abstractum. See ABSTRACTION. An ABSTRACT Idea, is some simple Idea, detach'd and separated from any particular Subject, or Complex Idea ; for the sake of viewing and considering it more...

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

  • ACEPHALUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACEPHALUS

    ACEPHALUS, or Acephalous, something without a Head. See HEAD. The Word is composed of the Privative ἀ, and κεφαλή, Caput, Head. Pliny represents the Blemmyes as a headless or Acephalous nation. See BLEMMYES. Acephalous worms are frequent. See WORM, and...

    • 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

  • ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI

    ANIMA MUNDI, q.d. Soul of the World, or of the Universe, is a certain pure, ethereal Substance or Spirit, diffused, according to many of the ancient Philosophers, through the Mass of the World, informing, actuating, and uniting the diverse parts thereof...

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

  • ADVOWhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADVOW

    ADVOW, or Avow, Advocare, in law, to justify or maintain an act formerly done. Thus, if one takes a distress for rent, or other thing, and he that is distressed sues a replevin; the distressor, justifying or maintaining the act, is said to avow. See...

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

  • ALPHAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALPHA

    ALPHA, the Name of the first Letter of the Greek Alphabet. See LETTER, and ALPHABET. The Alpha, in Composition, denotes, sometimes, Privation, in the same Sense with an, without; sometimes Augmentation, as dyer, much; and sometimes Union, as aves...

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

  • ARRAIGNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ARRAIGN

    ARRAIGN, or Arrain, in law, signifies to set a thing in order, or in its place. See ARRANGEMENT. Thus, he is said to arraign a writ of novel disseisin, who prepares and fits it for trial before the justices of the circuit. In this sense Littleton says,...

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

  • APPENDIXhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPENDIX

    APPENDIX, or Appurtenance, a thing accessory to, or dependent on, another. See ACCESSORY. The Term is chiefly used in matters of Literature, for an additional Discourse, placed at the end of any Piece, or Writing; to explain or prosecute something there...

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