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  • AMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMEN

    a Church Term, used as the Conclusion of all solemn Prayers, &c. and signifying, so be it, or fiat. The Hebrews had four kinds of Amen — That just mentioned they called Amen past; which was accompanied with the greatest Attention, and Devotion: In this...

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

  • ANAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANA

    in Medicine, denotes an equal Quantity of any Thing, whether in liquid or dry Measure. See A. Hence Analectica Proportio is used by some Writers to signify the Ratio, or Proportion of Equality. See EQUALITY, RATIO, &c. Ana, in Matters of Literature, a...

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

  • AREAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AREA

    in their motions about any other body, gravitate towards such body. See GRAVITATION, and NEWTONIAN PHILOSOPHY. AREA is also used in Medicine, for a disease which makes the hair fall out. See HAIR. The area is a general kind of depilation, and is...

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

  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    otherwise called the diameter thereof—Such is the line AB, Tab. Geometry, Fig. 27. See DIAMETER. Axis is yet more generally used for a right line proceeding from the vertex of a figure to the base thereof. See FIGURE, VERTEX, and BASE. Axis of a...

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

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

    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, Sir Isaac Newton shows, must be always decreasing, in...

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

  • ANANAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANANAS

    which is almost equal to Malmsey Sack, and will intoxicate as soon. It is good to strengthen the Heart and Nerves, against nauseating, to refresh the Spirits, and excites Urine powerfully; but is apt to occasion Abortion in Women.—They make a Confection...

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

  • ANCYLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANCYLE

    of March, in procession around Rome; and the 30th Day of that Month, were again deposited in their Place. Ancyle, is also used in Anatomy, for the Contraction of the Ham. ANCYLE

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

  • ANNUALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUAL

    Rent, etc. See ANNIVERSARY. The Annual Motion of the Earth see proved under the article EARTH. Annual is sometimes used for the yearly Rent, or Income of a Prebendary, etc. See PREBENDARY, etc. Annual Plants, called also simply annuals; are such as only...

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

  • ASTHMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ASTHMA

    to leave the Lungs less room to move. The Cure of the true or pneumonic Asthma, is by bleeding; after which Emetics may be used; and if the Paroxysm returns, Epispastics, with Glysters instead of Purges.—Infusions of Figs, Equin., or the Juice thereof,...

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

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

    auguries is very ancient, as having been prohibited by Moses in Leviticus—The cup put in Benjamin's sack, in Egypt, was that used by Joseph to take auguries by. In its more general signification, the word augury comprises all the different kinds of...

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

  • ADJUNCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ADJUNCT

    supplements or reinforcements of the proof arising from the circumstances of the fact. See CIRCUMSTANCE, etc. Adjunct is also used in civil concerns, for a colleague, or fellow-officer, associated to another, to assist him in his ministry, to share the...

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

  • APSIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/APSIDES

    of the Apsides, see Apogee, etc. The Word comes from the Greek ἀψίς (apsis), an Arch, or Vault. Apsides were also anciently used for a kind of private Oratories, or Chapels in great Churches; otherwise called Doxologia, or Doxalia. See ORATORY. They...

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

  • ACREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACRE

    SURVEYING.The Word is formed from the Saxon Acher, or Acker, Field; or the Latin Ager. Though Salmasius derives it from Acra, used for Agera, a Land-Measure among the Ancients, containing 10 Feet.The Kingdom of England contains by Computation 39,038,500...

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

  • ANALOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALOGY

    which the Latins usually render by Comparatio, and Proportionalitas: And hence, among Geometricians, Analogia is frequently used for a Similarity of Ratios; called also Proportion. See PROPORTION. Reasonings by Analogia may serve to explain and...

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

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    be moving, or looking, to the right side of the Shield; and it is a general Rule, that the right Foot be placed foremost, because the right side is reckoned the beginning of Motion; add, that the upper part is nobler than the lower; so that things...

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

  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    him. See ACCUSATION. For this reason, the law, in some cases, has made the Husband both judge and executioner in his own cause; and has allowed him to revenge himself of the injury, by taking away the lives of the adulterers whom he should apprehend in...

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

  • ADDITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDITION

    say that natural bodies are formed by the addition or aggregation of parts. See AGGREGATION, ACCRETION, etc. Addition is also used for the additament or the thing added itself. In new editions of books, authors often make additions; they frequently make...

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

  • AGISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGIST

    word is also extended to the taking in of other men's cattle, in any man's ground; at a certain rate per week.It is also used metaphorically for a charge or burden on any thing.—In this sense, we meet with Terre ad Custodiam Maris Agistate, i.e. charged...

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

  • ADVOCATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADVOCATE

    Advocatus, among the Romans, a person skilled in their law, and who undertook the defense of causes at the bar. See LAW. The word is compounded of ad, and voco, i.e. I call to my aid, or defense. The Roman Advocates answered to one part of the office of...

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

  • AMMONIAChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMMONIAC

    will of itself draw out Splinters, &c. Some dissolve the Gum in Vinegar, and other Liquors, and call it Lac Ammoniacum; much used in Asthmas, and Obstructions of the Lungs—But the more usual form of prescribing it is in Pills. Ammoniac.—Sal Ammoniac, is...

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