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  • ASSOCIATION OF IDEAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSOCIATION%20OF%20IDEAS

    ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS,is where two or more Ideas, constantly and immediately follow or succeed one another in the Mind, so that one shall almost infallibly produce the other; whether there be any natural Relation between them, or not. See IDEA. Where...

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

  • ALVUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALVUS

    ALVUS, among Anatomists, is sometimes used to express the intestinal Tube, from the Stomach to the Anus. See INTESTINES. Alvus, in a Medicinal Sense, is taken for the State, and Condition of the Feces, or Excrements contained within that Cavity. See...

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

  • APPUIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPUI

    APPUI, in the Manage, q. d. rest or stay upon the Hand; is the reciprocal Effort between the Horse’s Mouth and the Bridle-Hand; or the Sense of the Action of the Bridle in the Hand of the Horseman. See HEAD, BRIDLE, etc. A just Appui of the Hand, is the...

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

  • ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ABACUS

    ABACUS, among the Antients, was a kind of Cupboard, or Buffet. See BUFFET. In this Sense Livy, describing the Luxury into which the Romans degenerated after the Conquest of Asia, says, They had their Abaci, Beds, &c. plated over with Gold. Dec. IV. Lib....

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

  • ACOPUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOPUM

    ACOPUM, a Fomentation, of warm and emollient things, to allay the Sense of Weariness, occasioned by too violent Labour or Exercise. See FOMENTATION, BATHING, etc.The Word is compounded of the Privative α, and κόπος (kopos), labor. ACOPUM

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

  • AFFIRMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AFFIRM

    AFFIRM, in Law.—To affirm, signifies to ratify, or confirm a former Law, or Judgment.—In the like Sense, is the Substantive Affirmance used. See AFFIRMATION. AFFIRM

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

  • AGNATIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATI

    AGNATI, in Civil Law, a term used in respect of the male descendants of the same father, in different lines. See AGNATION. In this sense, the word is distinguished from Cognati. See COGNATE. AGNATI

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

  • ANTHEMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHEM

    ANTHEM, Antiphona, a Church-Song, performed in Cathedral, and other Service, by the Choristers, divided for that purpose into two Choruses, who sing alternately. See SONG, CHOIR, etc. The Word was originally used both for Psalms, and Hymns, when thus...

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

  • APATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APATHY

    APATHY, a moral Insensibility; or a Privation of all Passion, all Motion, or Perturbation of Mind. See PASSION. The Stoics affected an entire Apathy: their wise Man was to enjoy a perfect Calmness or Tranquility of Mind, incapable of being ruffled, and...

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

  • ARRESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARREST

    ARREST, in common Law,an Execution of the Command of some Court, or Officer of Justice—Hence, when a Person is legally stopped, apprehended, and restrained of his Liberty, for Debt, etc. he is said to be arrested, or put under an Arrest; which is the...

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

  • ASSIGNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSIGN

    ASSIGN, in Law,a Term introduced in favour of Bastards; who, because they cannot pass by the Name of Heirs, are comprised under that of Assigns. See HEIR and BASTARD. Assign is also used for the appointing of a Deputy, or the making over a Right to...

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

  • AUTHORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHOR

    AUTHOR, AUTOR, properly denotes one who created or produced any thing; and is applied by way of eminence to the first cause, viz. God—Thus we say the author of nature, etc. See CAUSE, GOD, NATURE, etc. The word is Latin, formed of the Greek, αὐτός,...

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

  • ACQUESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACQUEST

    ACQUEST, or Acquist, is understood, in a legal Sense, of Goods, or Effects, immovable, not descended or held by Inheritance; but acquired, either by Purchase or Donation.See GOODS.The Word is French; formed of the Verb Acquerir, to acquire.—The French...

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

  • ARCHIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHIVE

    ARCHIVE, or Archives, a chamber wherein the records, charters, and other papers and evidences of a house or community are preserved. See RECORD, PAPER, etc. Thus, we say the archives of a college, of a monastery, etc. The archives of ancient Rome were...

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

  • ALIMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ALIMENT

    ALIMENT, Alimentum, Food, in a physical Sense, is whatever may be dissolved and turned into Chyle, by the Liquor of the Stomach, or the Natural Heat; so as to be afterwards converted into Blood, for augmenting the Body, or repairing the continual...

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

  • ALIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALIMONY

    ALIMONY, Alimonia, in Law, anciently signified Nourishment, or Maintenance; but in a more modern Sense, denotes that Portion, or Allowance which a married Woman sues for, upon any occasional Separation from her Husband, wherein she is not charged with...

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

  • ALVEOLIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ALVEOLI

    ALVEOLI, in Anatomy, little Sockets in the Jaws, wherein the Teeth are set. See TEETH, and JAW. The Alveoli are lined with a Membrane of exquisite Sense, which seems to be nervous, and is wrapped about the Roots of each Tooth; from whence, and the...

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

  • ABACTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABACTOR

    a barbarous Latin Word, retain'd in our Dictionaries as a Law-Term, tho never yet naturaliz'd, nor its Idea agreed on. Literally, it imports the same with Abigeus, or as others write it, Abigevus, or Abigens ; form'd of Abigo, I drive away, q. d. a...

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

  • ANAGOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGOGY

    ANAGOGY, Anacoge, a Rapture, or Elevation of the Soul, to things Celestial, and Eternal. See ECSTASY, &c. This is not the natural Sense of such a Passage of Scripture; it is an Anagogy. See MYSTIC. We have Comments on the Scripture, which are Anagogies...

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

  • ABASINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/navigation/ABASING

    ABASING, literally denotes the taking a thing down, or bringing it lower. In this Sense the Word is us'd at Sea ; where, to abase a Flag, is to lower, or take it in, as a Token of Submission and Inferiority. See FLAG. By an Ordonnance of Philip II....

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