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  • ADOPTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOPTION

    ADOPTION, Adoptio, an act by which anyone takes another into his family, owns him for his son, and appoints him his heir. See FAMILY, SON, &c. The word is derived from adoptare; whence came adoubare, to make a Knight: whence also Miles adoubatus, a...

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    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • 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

  • ALEMBICKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALEMBICK

    ALEMBICK, or Limbeck, a Chemical Vessel, consisting of a Matrass, fitted with a roundish Head, perforated in a sloping Tube, for the condensed Vapours to pass through in Distillation. See CUCURBIT, and DISTILLATION.Alembic is popularly understood of the...

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

  • ADEQUATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEQUATE

    ADEQUATE, Adequate, something equal to, or coextensive with, another; and filling the whole measure and capacity thereof. See EQUALITY. In this sense, the word stands opposed to Inadequate.See INADEQUATE. Adequate Ideas or Notions are such images or...

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

  • AFFINITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFINITY

    AFFINITY, Affinitas, an Alliance, or Relation made between two Families, by Marriage. See ALLIANCE, and MARRIAGE. In this Sense, the Word stands contradistinguished to Consanguinity; which is a Relation by Blood. See CONSANGUINITY. In the Mosaical Law,...

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

  • ACCESSORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSORY

    ACCESSORY, or Accessary, something that accedes, or is added to another more considerable thing, or arises as a natural Consequence therefrom. See ACCESSION. In this Sense, the Word stands opposed to Principal. See PRINCIPAL. Accessory, or Accessary,...

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

  • 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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    ASTROLOGY, Astrologia, the Art of foretelling future Events, from the Aspects, Positions, and Influences of the Heavenly Bodies. See ASPECT, INFLUENCE, etc. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἄστρον, Star, and λόγος, Discourse; whence, in the literal...

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

  • AFFECTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AFFECTION

    AFFECTION, Affectio, in Physics, a Quality or Property of some natural Being. See QUALITY, and PROPERTY. The Schoolmen define Affection an Attribute proper to any Being, arising from the Essence thereof. See ATTRIBUTE, PROPER, etc. Affections are...

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

  • ANTIPATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPATHY

    ANTIPATHY, Antipathia, a natural Enmity, or Aversion of one Body to another. In this Sense, the Word stands opposed to Sympathy. See SYMPATHY. Such is commonly said to be between the Salamander and the Tortoise, the Vine and the Elm, the Toad and the...

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    ATMOSPHERE, Ἀτμόσφαιρα an Appendage of our Earth; consisting of a thin, fluid, elastic Substance, called Air, surrounding the Terraqueous Globe, to a considerable Height. See EARTH. By atmosphere is usually understood the whole Mass or Assemblage of...

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

  • APOCALYPSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCALYPSE

    APOCALYPSE, Apocalypsis, q.d. Revelation; the Name of the last Book in the Canon of Scripture. See CANON and BIBLE. The Apocalypse contains Discoveries, or Revelations relating to many important Mysteries of Christian Faith; made to the Apostle St....

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

  • ANTECEDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTECEDENT

    ANTECEDENT, in the Schools, something that precedes, or goes before another, in respect of time; from the Latin Preposition ante, before, and cedens of cedere, to go. In this Sense the Word stands opposed to Subsequent. An Antecedent Decree, is a Decree...

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

  • ACETABULUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ACETABULUM

    ACETABULUM, in antiquity, a little vase or cup used at table to serve up things proper for sauce or seasoning, much after the manner of our salts and vinegar cruets. See VASE, and VESSEL. Hence, Agricola, in his treatise of Roman measures, L. I., takes...

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

  • ANTIQUATEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIQUATED

    ANTIQUATED, Antiquatus, something obsolete or grown out of date, or use. See OBSOLETE. ANTIQUE, Antiquus, something that is ancient. See ANCIENT. The Term is chiefly used by Architects, Sculptors, and Painters; who apply it to such pieces of...

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

  • ANTIPHRASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPHRASIS

    ANTIPHRASIS, a sort of figurative Speech which has a contrary meaning to what it carries in appearance. Or, a kind of Irony, wherein we say one thing and mean the contrary. See FIGURE and IRONY. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀντί and φράσις, of...

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

  • ANTIDILUVIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIDILUVIAN

    ANTIDILUVIAN, something before the Deluge. See DELUGE. In this Sense, those Generations from Adam, until Noah's Flood, are called Antediluvians; and those descended from Noah, to the present time, are called Postdiluvians. Dr. Burnet and Dr. Woodward...

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

  • AMPLIFICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/AMPLIFICATION

    AMPLIFICATION, in Rhetoric, part of a Discourse or Speech, wherein a Crime is aggravated, a Praise or Commendation heightened, or a Narration enlarged by an Enumeration of Circumstances; so as to excite the proper Passions in the Souls of the Auditors....

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

  • ASPERA ARTERIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPERA%20ARTERIA

    ASPERA ARTERIA,in Anatomy, the Wind-pipe; otherwise called the Trachea. See TRACHEA and ARTERY. The Aspera Arteria, is a Canal situated in the Fore-part of the Neck, before the Oesophagus: Its upper End is called the Larynx; from whence it descends to...

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

  • AGISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGIST

    AGIST, in Law.—To agist, signifies to take in, and feed, the cattle of strangers, in the King’s forest; and gather the money due for the same. See AGISTOR.The word is also extended to the taking in of other men's cattle, in any man's ground; at a...

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