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  • AMMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMMA

    a Girdle, or Truss used in Ruptures; to hinder the Intestines from bearing down too much. See RUPTURE, &c. AMMA

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

  • ANKERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANKER

    a liquid Measure, chiefly used in Amsterdam, etc. See MEASURE. The Anker is the 4th part of the Aam, and contains two Stekans: each Stekan consists of sixteen Mingels; the Mingle being equal to two Paris Pints. See PINT, etc. ANKER

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

  • ANUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANUS

    Fundament. See RECTUM and FUNDAMENT. Fistulas in Ano are very difficult to Cure. See FISTULA. The Philistines sent golden Anuses back with the Ark, to be cured of a Disease which afflicted them in the Anus. See ARK. Sphincter of the Anus, or Sphincter...

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

  • APPLYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPLY

    is used among Mathematicians three ways:1. It signifies to transfer a Line given into a Circle, most commonly, or into any other Figure; so as its Ends be in the Perimeter of the Figure. 2. To apply denotes as much as to divide, especially among the...

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

  • AXIOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIOM

    arise; etc. are axioms.—The word is Greek, ἀξίωμα, q.d. dignitas, auctoritas, or even effatum: whence Cicero in lieu thereof uses the word pronuntiatum. By axioms, called also maxims, are understood all common notions of the mind, whose evidence is so...

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

  • DEFORMITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/ethics/DEFORMITY

    its Affinity to the other Senses, in this, that the Pleasure does not arise from any Knowledge of Principles, Proportions, Causes, Uses, &c. but strikes at first View; as also in this, that the Ideas of Beauty, like other sensible Ideas, are necessarily...

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

  • ASPIRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPIRATION

    etc. Of the Hebrew שם, שמי and thence שמים, etc. Nay, even in the same Language, Hesiod, speaking of Hercules's Buckler, uses "Ηρσυν" for "θήρσυν"; making no Difference between an θ and an Aspirate. See CONSONANT. Hence it evidently follows, that...

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

  • ARMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ARMEN

    in Heraldry, is used in respect of Beasts and Birds of Prey, when their Teeth, Horns, Feet, Beak, Talons, or Tusks, are of a different Colour from the rest—He bears a Cock, or a Falcon, armed, Or, etc. ARMEN

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    also absolutely and by way of eminence Architecture, is the art of contriving andexecuting commodious buildings for the uses of civil life; as houses, temples, theaters, halls, bridges, colleges,porticos, etc. See HOUSE, TEMPLE, THEATER, etc....

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

  • ASIDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASIDE

    condemn all Asides; and with some Reason; as they are a manifest Breach of Probability.—Accordingly, they are never to be used but at a Pinch, which a good Author will scarcely suffer himself to be brought to. See PLAYS, TRAGEDY, Comedy; see also...

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

  • ASPIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPIC

    frequent in the Southern Parts of France, resembling Lavender, and by the Botanists called Lavandula Mas. See ORN. It is much used by Painters and Farriers; and sometimes also in Medicine.—The true Oil of Aspic, is of a white Colour, and an aromatic...

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

  • ASSAYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSAY

    under the Article ESSAY. Assay of Weights and Measures, signifies the Trial or Examination of common Weights and Measures, used bythe Clerk of the Market. See WEIGHT, MEASURE, STANDARD, CLERK OF THE MARKET. Assayer of the King, is an Officer of the...

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

  • ATAXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATAXY

    Ataxia, a want of order or regularity—The term is chiefly used in medicine, where the order of the critical days, or other phenomena of a disease, is inverted. See CRITICAL. The physicians have frequent recourse to an Ataxy or irregularity of the...

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

  • AVANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVANT

    a French Preposition, signifying before, or a priority either in respect of Time or Place; sometimes used, in Composition, in our Language, but more usually contracted, and wrote Vaunt, or Vant, or even Van. See VAN. Van Corps. See VAN FOSSE. Van Guard,...

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

  • AVASThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVAST

    a Term frequently used on board a Ship, signifying to stop, hold, or stay. The Word is form’d of the Italian, basta, it is enough, it suffices. AVAST

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

  • AVISOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVISO

    to notify some Event, or Matter worthy of Knowledge. See ADVERTISEMENT, etc. The Word is Italian, and is chiefly used in Matters of Commerce. AVISO

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

  • AZUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZURE

    figure. The French prefer this color to all others, by reason the field of the arms of their kings is azure. Azure is also used for a mineral color, prepared from the Lapis Armenus. See ARMENUS. The azure is very near akin to ultramarine; being procured...

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

  • ACREMEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACREME

    ACREME, a Term sometimes used in ancient Law-Books, for ten Acres. See ACRE. ACREME

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

  • ACTUALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTUAL

    inherent in the soul, which renders us agreeable to God, and objects of eternal recompense. See GRACE. So, Actual Sin is used in opposition to Original Sin. See SIN. Actual Sin is that committed knowingly, by a person arrived at years of discretion....

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

  • ADAGIOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/phonics/ADAGIO

    ADAGIO, in Music, one of the words used by the Italians to denote a degree or distinction of time. See TIME. The Adagio expresses a slow time; the slowest of any, except Grave. See ALLEGRO. The Triple 3 is ordinarily Adagio. See TRIPLE. ADAGIO

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Phonics - Music
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