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  • AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION

    and females. See COGNATION. The difference, then, between Agnation and Cognation consists in this: that Cognation is the universal name under which the whole family, and even the Agnates themselves are contained; and Agnation a particular branch of...

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

  • APOPLEXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/APOPLEXY

    etc. The Fit is usually preceded by a violent Pain in the Head, Dimness and Loss of Sight or Memory: Sometimes by a universal Indolence; and sometimes by a Flux of pituitous Matter by the Nose and Mouth. It is attended with a snoring and difficulty of...

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

  • ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA

    and the Square; the Root with them being called Res, and the Square Census.—Others call it Specious Arithmetic; others Universal Arithmetic, &c. Menage derives the Word from the Arabic Algebra, which signifies the setting of a broken Bone; supposing...

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

  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    and Sylvius de la Boe, followed by the Tribe of vulgar Chemists, strenuously assert Sal Alkaly and Acid to be the only universal Principles of all Bodies; and by means hereof, account for the Qualities of Bodies, and the rest of the Phenomena of Nature;...

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

  • ADEPTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEPTS

    proficient individuals in Alchemy, particularly those who claim to possess the secrets of the Philosopher's Stone and the Universal Medicine.See ALCHEMY, PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, TRANSMUTATION, ELIXIR, etc.Ripley, Lully, Paracelsus, Helmont, Hollandus,...

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

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

    of matter, in all bodies: so that let them exist under what modificationssoever, there can be no alteration made of this universal property. — Hence, the division of matter into what, for distinction's sake, may be called Spirit, does not give it any...

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

  • CHESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game/CHESS

    at Chess successively. Tamerlane is recorded as a very expert Gamester at Chess. Chess is doubtless a most antient and universal Game: The common Opinion is, that it was invented by Palamedes at the Siege of Troy. Others attribute the Invention to...

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

  • AZOTHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZOTH

    among the ancient chemists, signified, sometimes, the first matter of metals; sometimes an universal medicine; and sometimes the mercury of a metal.—But the term is now disused. See METAL, MERCURY, etc. AZOTH

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

  • AULIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AULIC

    is also a Name attributed to certain Officers of the Emperor, who compose a superior Court or Council, which has an universal Jurisdiction, and without Appeal, over all the Subjects of the Empire, in all Processes entered therein. See EMPEROR and...

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

  • ATLAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLAS

    within its two lower Cavities, by means of which they are articulated together. Atlas is also a Title given to Books of universal Geography containing Maps of the known Parts of the World; as if they were viewed from the Top of that celebrated Mountain,...

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

  • ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT

    Bourges : and others, both the one and the other. Among the Greeks, some even took the Quality of Oecumenical Abbots, or Universal Abbots, in Imitation of the Patriarch of Cmjhatttinople. See OECUMENICAL. Nor have the Latins been much behind 'em in that...

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

  • Rees's Cyclopædiahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rees-s-cyclopaedia

    Rees (1802–1819) The Cyclopaedia; or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown Vol 1 (A – Amarathides) Vol 2 (Amarantus – Arteriotomy) Vol 3 (Artery – Battersea) Vol 4 (Battery – Bookbinding) Vol 5...

    • Type: Article
    • Category: Book

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Association, Abstraction, &c. Its Perceptions, as Substance, Accident, Mode, &c. Relations, as Unity, Multitude, Infinity, Universal, &c. Quantity, Quality, Whole, Part, &c. Genus, Species, Difference, &c. Proper, Opposite, Circumslance, External, &c....

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