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  • ASARABACKAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASARABACKA

    or Dog’s-Tooth; but thatit has a pretty brisk Smell, and bites the tongue when tasted.—Its Leaves were anciently much in Use, as an Emetic, and Cathartic; and in some Authors we find a superstitious Observance in the gathering them: They allege, that if...

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

  • ASTRONOMICALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMICALS

    a name used by some writers for Sexagesimal Fractions; on account of their use in Astronomical Calculations. See SEXAGESIMAL. ASTRONOMICALS

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

  • ARVALES FRATREShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARVALES%20FRATRES

    of their Dignity, was a Garland, composed of Ears of Corn, tied with a white Ribbon, which Pliny says, was the first Crown in Use at Rome. See CROWN. The Word is originally Latin, and is formed from arvum, a Field; because, in their Ceremonies, they...

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

  • AMBIDEXTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBIDEXTER

    one who uses both Hands alike, the Left as well as the Right, and this in Cases where only the Use of one is necessary. The Word is formed from the Latin ambidexter, both, and dexter, right hand. Hippocrates observes, that this never happens to Women....

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

  • Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A

    quingentos, ordine recto. But we shall here observe, once for all, that it was not strictly among the Antients that this Use of Numeral Letters had place, as is commonly suppos'd. Isidore Hispalensis, an Author of the VIIth Century, affirms it expresly...

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

  • AETITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AETITES

    Earth: Especially the innermost.—They are originally soft, and of the Colour of yellow Ochre. Dioscorides says, it is of use in discovering a Thief; for by mixing it with his Meat, he'll be unable to swallow it.— Matthiolus informs us, that Birds of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN

    the Prophet, who they say was an illiterate Man, had no hand in it; but that it was given him by God, who, to that end, made use of the Ministry of the Angel Gabriel; that however it was communicated to him by little and little, a Verse at a time, and...

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

  • APPROPRIATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROPRIATION

    or applying a Church-Benefice, which of its own Nature is jus divini, and no Person’s Patrimony, to the proper and perpetual Use of some Religious Community. See APPROPRIATE. Appropriation is where the Advowson of a Parsonage is given or belongs to any...

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

  • ANTHORAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ANTHORA

    or Healing Wolfs-bane, a Species of Aconite, whose Root is useful in Physic; being reputed a good Antidote, and a certain Counterpoison to the Chora, whence its Denomination Anthora. See ACONITE. The Root contains a great deal of volatile Salt and...

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

  • ADJUTORIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ADJUTORIUM

    in anatomy, a bone of the arm; so called, as being useful in lifting it up. See BONE and ARM. ADJUTORIUM

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

  • ANTIPTOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ANTIPTOSIS

    Inscriptions, and to give them all the assistance they could in this way of Learning. This was doubtless a very curious and useful Institution. Pausanias calls these Antiquaries Exegetes; the Sicilians called them Mystagogos. ANTIPTOSIS

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

  • ANNEALINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNEALING

    or as it is popularly called Nealing. See NEALING. One fine use of Silver, says Mr. Boyle, was only discovered since the Art of Annealing upon Glass came to be practiced. For prepared Silver, or even the crude Metal, being burnt on a Glass Plate, will...

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

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

    rose out of the Encratites, and Cathari in the 2nd Century. They made profession of abstaining from Marriage, and the use of Wine, Flesh, Money, etc. See ENCRATITE, ENCRATITES, etc. The other Branch of Apostolics were of the 12th Century: These also...

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

  • ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ABACUS

    ABACUS, in Architecture, is the uppermost Member of the Capital of a Column ; serving as a kind of Crowning, both to the Capital and the whole Column. See COLUMN. Dr. Harris, and the rest of die Dictionary-Writers, make the Abacus to be the Capital it...

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

  • ARCHITRAVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITRAVE

    ARCHITRAVE, in building, that part of a column,or order of column, which lies immediately upon the capital. See ORDER and CAPITAL. The Architrave is the lowest member of the frieze, andeven of the whole entablature. See FRIEZE and ENTABLATURE. The...

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

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

    infandum! sistunt amnes, terraeque dehiscunt, et maestum illachrymat templis ebur, aeraque sudant. 3°, By a Detail of Causes and Effects. 4°, By an Enumeration of Consequences. 5°, By Comparisons, Similitudes, and Examples. See SIMILITUDE, &c. 6°, By...

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

  • ACMEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACME

    or top of anything. The word is Greek, "ἀκμή" (akmē), point, tip; of "ἀκμάζω" (akmazō), I flourish. Acme is more especially used to denote the height of a distemper; which is divided into four periods by some institution writers: 1) the Arche, the...

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

  • ACUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACUTE

    an Edge; disposed either for piercing or cutting. See POINT, EDGE, etc. In this sense, the word usually stands opposed to Obtuse.See OBTUSE. Acute Angle, is that which is less than a right angle;or which does not subtend 90 degrees. See ANGLE. Such is...

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

  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    varied, in such manner as to afford a fine instance of the wisdom of Providence. See the article LONGEVITY.Age is also used in Chronology, for a Century; or a system or period of a hundred years; called also Seculum.See SECULUM, and CENTURY.An age...

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

  • AGENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AGENT

    has the power to act upon another and by its action induces some change in the other. See ACT and ACTION. The word Agent is used interchangeably with efficient, and in contrast to Patient. See EFFICIENT, PASSIVE, etc. Scholars differentiate Agents into...

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