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  • SIGNIFICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SIGNIFICATION

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

  • ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE

    ARTICLE,Articulus, a little Part or Division of a Book, Writing, or the like—Aquinas divides his Sum of Theology, into several Questions; and each Question into divers Articles—Such an Account consists of so many Articles. Article is also used for the...

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

  • ASCENDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENDENT

    than another. See NATIVITY, &c. In the Celestial Theme, this is also called the First House, the Oriental Angle, and the Significator of Life. See HOUSE, THEME, SIGNIFICATOR, &c. Such a Planet ruled in his Ascendant.—Jupiter was in his Ascendant, &c....

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

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    'TIS not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a...

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

  • 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

  • AVOIDANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AVOIDANCE

    AVOIDANCE, in Law, has two Significations: The one, when a Benefice becomes void of an Incumbent; the other, when we say in Pleadings in Chancery, contested or avoided, traversed or denied, etc. See VACANCY. AVOIDANCE

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

  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    ACCENT, Accentus, a certain inflection of voice, or a peculiar tone and manner of pronunciation, contracted from the country or province where a person was bred. See VOICE and PRONUNCIATION. In this sense, we say the Welsh tone or accent, the Northern...

    • 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

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    ASSIZE, or Assise, Assisa,in Law, a sitting of Judges, or Justices; for the hearing and determining of Causes. See JUDGE, JUSTICE, CAUSE, etc. The Word is French, Assise, of Ais, seated; formed of Assideo, I sit by; which is compounded of ad, to, and...

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

  • AUGURYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AUGURY

    AUGURY, in Antiquity, the art of divining, or foretelling events, by the chattering, singing, and feeding of birds. See DIVINATION and AUGUR. The observation of auguries is very ancient, as having been prohibited by Moses in Leviticus—The cup put in...

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

  • ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET

    ALPHABET, the several Letters of a Language, disposed in their natural or accustomed Order. See LETTER, and LANGUAGE.The Word is formed from the Names of the two first Letters of the Greek Alphabet, Alpha, Beta; which were borrowed from those of the...

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

  • ALLEGORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLEGORY

    ALLEGORY, Allegoria, a Figure in Rhetoric, whereby we make use of Terms which in their proper Signification, mean something else than what they are here intended to denote: Or, it is a Figure, whereby we say one thing, expecting it shall be understood...

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

  • 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

  • ADJECTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ADJECTIVE

    ADJECTIVE, Noun Adjective, or ADNOUN, in Grammar, a kind of noun joined with a noun substantive, either expressed or understood, to show its manner of being, that is, its qualities or accidents. See NOUN, etc. The word is formed from the Latin...

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

  • 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

  • ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION

    ABSTRACTION, an Operation of the Mind, whereby we separate Things naturally conjunct, or existing together ; and form and consider Ideas of Things thus separated. See ABSTRACT. The Faculty of Abstracting, stands directly opposite to that of Compounding...

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

  • ALEXIPHARMIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALEXIPHARMIC

    ALEXIPHARMIC, in Medicine, expresses that Property which a Remedy, either simple or compound, has to resist, or destroy everything of a poisonous Nature: For the Ancients had a Notion, that there was Poison in all malignant Diseases, and in the...

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

  • 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

  • ALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AL

    AL, an Arabic Particle, prefixed to Words to exalt or give them a more emphatical Signification.—As, in Alchemy, Algebra, &c. AL

    • 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
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