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

    Acephalous worms are frequent. See WORM, and VERMES. Acephalus is more frequently applied, in a figurative sense, to those destitute of a leader or chief. Thus, the name Acephali is sometimes applied to such priests or bishops as are exempted from the...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    or Antoecians, in Geography, a relative Term, understood of such Inhabitants of the Earth as live diametrically opposite to one another. See EARTH. The Antipodes are those who live in Parallels of Latitude equally distant from the Equator, the one...

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

  • ANTICHRISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICHRIST

    ANTICHRIST, or Antichrist, Antichristus, among Divines, etc., a Tyrant who is to reign on Earth, toward the end of the World; for the ultimate Proof of the Elect; and to give a shining Instance of the Divine Vengeance, before the last Judgment. The Word...

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

  • APOTHEOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/APOTHEOSIS

    who had done any important Service to the Commonwealth. Tiberius proposed to the Roman Senate the Apotheosis of Jesus Christ, as is related by Eusebius, Tertullian, and St. Chrysostom. Juvenal, rallying on the frequent Apotheoses, introduces poor Atlas,...

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

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

    IRONY. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀντί and φράσις, of φράζω, I speak. 'Tis a common Error, to make Antiphrases consist in a single Word; as when we say that the Parsae are thus called by Antiphrasis, because they spare no body, Parcae quia...

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

  • ANNUNCIATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUNCIATION

    the Tidings which the Angel Gabriel brought to the Holy Virgin, of the Mystery of the Incarnation. See INCARNATION. Annunciation is also the name of a Feast, celebrated annually on the 25th of March, popularly called Lady Day, in Commemoration of that...

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

  • ACCOMMODATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ACCOMMODATION

    lived in our Saviour's; and are accommodated to them: Ye Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, &c. which same Words, St. Paul afterwards accommodates to the Jews of his Time. — This Method of explaining Scripture by Accommodation serves as a Key...

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

  • ANCIENT DEMESNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCIENT%20DEMESNE

    DEMESNE, or Demain, is a Tenure, whereby all Manors belonging to the Crown in William the Conqueror’s, and St. Edward's time, were held. See TENURE and DEMESNE. The Numbers, Names, etc., hereof were entered by the Conqueror in a Book called...

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

  • ALMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMS

    Eleemosynaria, something given out of Charity or Liberality, to the Poor. See CHARITY, ALMONER, &c. The Romanists also extend the Term to what is given to the Church, or other pious Uses.—Hence, what the Church holds on this footing, is called Tenure in...

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

  • ARCHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHES

    or Court of Arches, is one of the Archbishop’s courts; to which appeals lie in ecclesiastical matters from all parts of the Province of Canterbury. SeeCourt, Appeal, and Archbishop. This court is thus called, from the arched church andtower of St. Mary...

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

  • ASCETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCETIC

    and particularly to Prayer and Mortification. See SOLITARY. Afterwards, when the Monks came in fashion, this Title was bestowed upon them; especially such of them as lived in Solitude. See MONK, HERMIT, ANCHORITE, etc. The Word is derived from the Greek...

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

  • ANGELIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGELIC

    Angelical, something belonging to, or that partakes of, the Nature of Angels. See ANGEL. Thus, we say, an Angelical Life, &c.—St. Thomas is styled the Angelical Doctor.—The Angelical Salutation is called by the Romanists Ave Maria. See AVE. The Greeks...

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

  • ANTITYPEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTITYPE

    a Type or Figure corresponding to some other Type. See TYPE. The Word Antitype, ἀντίτυπον, occurs twice in the New Testament, viz. in the Epistle to the Hebrews, IX. 24. and in St. Peter, I Ep. III. 21. where its genuine Import has been much...

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

  • ALDERMANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALDERMAN

    among our ancient Saxon Ancestors, was one of the three Orders or Degrees of Nobility. See NOBILITY, ETHELING WAS THE FIRST, ALDERMAN THE SECOND, and THANE THE LOWEST. See ETHELING, and THANE.The Alderman was the same as our Earl or Count; which...

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

  • AGNOETEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGNOETES

    or Agnoites, a denomination given to certain ancient heretics, who denied that Christ foreknew the Day of Judgment. The word is Greek, "Agnoetai," formed from "agnoeo," meaning, "I do not know." Eutychius, Patriarch of Alexandria, ascribes this heresy...

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

  • ARMENIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMENIANS

    in respect of Religion, a Sect, or Division among the Eastern Christians; thus called from Armenia, the Country anciently inhabited by them. See SECT. The Armenians, since the Conquest of their Country by Shah Abbas King of Persia, have had no fixed...

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

  • ALCANTARAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALCANTARA

    of Spain. See KNIGHT, ORDER, &c.Alphonso IX. having recovered Alcantara from the Moors, in the Year 1212; committed the Custody and Defence thereof, first, to the Knights of Calatrava; and, two Years afterwards, to the Knights of the Pear-Tree, another...

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

  • ANTITHESIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ANTITHESIS

    two things by way of Opposition to each other, that the Excellency of the one, and the Folly of the other may appear the more strongly. See OPPOSITE and OPPOSITION. Such is that of Cicero, in the second Catilinarian: “On the one side stands Modesty, on...

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

  • ANTINOMASYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ANTINOMASY

    or rather Antonomasy, a Figure in Rhetoric, whereby a Noun Appellative is used instead of a proper Name. See FIGURE and NAME. Thus we say, the Philosopher, instead of Aristotle; the Orator, for Cicero; the Apostle, for St.Paul, etc. Thus also we call a...

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

  • APOSTOLOCIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTOLOCI

    APOSTOLOCI, called also Apostoni, and Apostites, a Name assumed by two different Sects of Heretics, on account of their pretending to imitate the Manners and Practice of the Apostles. See APOSTLES. The first Apostolics, otherwise called Apostolici and...

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