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  • AMOMODUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMOMODUM

    of the Ancients was not a Fruit; but the Wood itself, which bore some resemblance to a Bunch of Grapes, and was particularly used in embalming of Bodies: and hence, says he, the Term Mummy was given to the Bodies of Egyptians embalmed with it. See...

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

  • ALLODIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLODIUM

    the Word signifies Hereditary Lands, or those derived from a Man’s Ancestors. Whence Allodium and Patrimonium are frequently used indiscriminately. See PATRIMONY. In the ancient Capitulars of Charlemagne and his Successors, we find Allode constantly...

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

  • ALMANACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMANACK

    See EPHEMERIDES. To say no more, Verstegan writes the Name Almon-ac and makes it of Saxon Origin: Our Ancestors, he observes, used to carve the Courses of the Moon of the whole Year upon a square Stick, or Block of Wood, which they called Al-monaght, q....

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

  • ANGELICAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGELICA

    wherein it is now prescribed among us, is, as a Carminative. Its Root is in the most esteem; though the Leaves are also used. Angelica-Water, is one of the compound Waters of the Shops; thus called from the Angelica Roots; which are the Basis thereof....

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

  • ALLOYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce/ALLOY

    ought to have; is said to be of a coarser or greater Alloy, or below Standard. See STANDARD. The Proportion of Alloy for Gold used in our Mints, is about a twelfth Part. See COINING. The Word seems derived from the French, Loy, Law; in regard the Alloy...

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

  • ACCESSORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSORY

    In this Sense, the Word stands opposed to Principal. See PRINCIPAL. Accessory, or Accessary, in Common Law, is chiefly used for a Person guilty of a felonious Offence; not principally, but by Participation; as, by Advice, Command, or Concealment. See...

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

  • ALPHAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALPHA

    in the same Sense with an, without; sometimes Augmentation, as dyer, much; and sometimes Union, as aves together. It was also used as a Letter of Order, to denote the first; and of Number, to signify one; but when it was a numerical Letter, a little...

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

  • ALVUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALVUS

    among Anatomists, is sometimes used to express the intestinal Tube, from the Stomach to the Anus. See INTESTINES. Alvus, in a Medicinal Sense, is taken for the State, and Condition of the Feces, or Excrements contained within that Cavity. See EXCREMENT,...

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

  • ASCENSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSION

    a rising, or moving See ASCENT, ASCENDANT, ASCENDING, etc. Ascension is particularly used for that miraculous Elevation of our Saviour, when he mounted to Heaven in the Sight of his Apostles. Hence also, Ascension Day, a Festival of the Church, held ten...

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

  • ALABASTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ALABASTER

    and discovers itself a mere incoherent Powder. See FLUID, and VOLATILITY. Some derive the Word from the Latin albus, because of the Whiteness of this Stone.—Others, from the Greek ἀλάβαστρος, which they form from the Privative α and λαμβάνω, capio; this...

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

  • APOCRYPHALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCRYPHAL

    to the Canon and read in public. See CANON, SCRIPTURE, etc. The Word is derived from ἀποκρύπτω (apokrypto), to hide, because the origin of such Books was unknown, or because they contained some Mysteries not fit to be known—for this reason, the Books of...

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

  • APOCALYPSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCALYPSE

    See EVANGELISTS. There have been several other Works published under the Title of Apocalypses. Sozomen mentions a Book used in the Churches of Palestine, called the Apocalypse, or Revelation of St. Peter. He also mentions an Apocalypse of St. Paul;...

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

  • ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE

    at the same time as the resignation and not at an interval. See RESIGNATION. In common law, acceptance is particularly used for a tacit kind of agreement to what has been done by another. For instance, if Baron and Feme, seized of land in right of the...

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

  • ARTIFICIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTIFICIAL

    &c. pretty exactly. See LINE, SCALE, SECTOR, &c. Artificial Fire-works,are Compositions of inflammable Materials; chiefly used on solemn Occasions, by Way of Rejoicing. See FIRE-WORKS. Artificial Arguments,in Rhetoric, are all such Proofs or...

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

  • ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION

    stands directly opposed to Retardation, which denotes a Diminution of Velocity. See RETARDATION. Acceleration is chiefly used in Physics, in respect of falling Bodies, i.e. of heavy Bodies tending towards the Centre of the Earth by the Force of Gravity....

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

  • ASTRONOMICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMICAL

    of Instruments, described in his Machina Celestis, began a course of observations. It is objected to him that he only used plain sights, and could never be brought to take the advantage of telescopic ones; which occasioned Dr. Hooke to write...

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

  • AMBEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMBE

    in Anatomy, a superficial Jutting out of a Bone. See BONE. The Word is also used as the Name of a Chirurgical Instrument, with which they reduce dislocated Bones. AMBE

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

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

    those who made it their Business to furnish Copies of Books, before the Invention of Printing. Accommodation is also used for an amicable Agreement, or Composition between the two contending Parties. The Process is grown so intricate and perplexed that...

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

  • ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE

    is the Angle ABD (fig. 26.) See RAY and MIRROR. Every incident Ray, AB, makes two Angles, the one acute, ABD, the other obtuse, ABE; though sometimes both right. The lesser of such angles is the Angle of Incidence. See INCIDENCE. Angle of Incidence, in...

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

  • AMBOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/AMBO

    a kind of Pulpit, or Desk, anciently used in Churches, whereon the Priests and Deacons stood to read, or sing part of the Service; and preach to the People. See PULPIT. It was ascended by Steps; which occasioned that part of the Office performed there,...

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