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  • ÆOLIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ÆOLIC

    or Aeolian, in Grammar, the name of one of the five Dialects of the Greek Tongue. See GREEK, and DIALECT. It was first used in Boeotia; whence it passed into Lesvos, and was that which Sappho and Alcaeus wrote in. The Aeolic Dialect throws out all the...

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

  • AFFIRMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AFFIRM

    Law.—To affirm, signifies to ratify, or confirm a former Law, or Judgment.—In the like Sense, is the Substantive Affirmance used. See AFFIRMATION. AFFIRM

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

  • AGNATIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATI

    in Civil Law, a term used in respect of the male descendants of the same father, in different lines. See AGNATION. In this sense, the word is distinguished from Cognati. See COGNATE. AGNATI

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

  • AMABYRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMABYR

    a Sea Term, used by a Man of War, to his Enemy; and signifying, yield.—Hence, To strike Amain, that is, to lower your Top-sails. AMABYR

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

  • ANGINAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANGINA

    before any Suppuration appears, recourse is had to repeated Venesection in the Jugulars—Vesicatories, and Cupping are also used; with Purgatives, emollient Gargles, &c. ANGINA

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

  • APAGMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APAGMA

    a Term used by some Writers in Surgery, for the thrusting of a Bone or other Part out of its proper place. See DISLOCATION. APAGMA

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

  • APATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APATHY

    a Contempt of all earthly Concerns; a State of Mortification, such as the Gospel prescribes. And hence we find the Word often used among the devouter Writers: Clemens Alexandrinus, in particular, brought it exceedingly in vogue; thinking hereby to draw...

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

  • ARGENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ARGENT

    in heraldry, signifies the color white, used in the coats of gentlemen, knights, and baronets. See COLOR and WHITE. Barons and all nobles have the white color called Pearl; and sovereign princes have theirs called Luna. Without either this or Or, the...

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

  • ARRESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARREST

    of Imprisonment. See ATTACHMENT, IMPRISONMENT, and HAUTRELOUPE. To move or plead in Arrest of Judgment, is to show Cause why Judgment should be stayed, though there be a Verdict in the Cause. See JUDGMENT and VERDICT. To plead in Arrest of taking the...

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

  • ASSACHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSACH

    or Assaru, a kind of Purgation, anciently used in Wales, by the Oaths of 300 Men. See PURGATION and OATH. ASSACH

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

  • ASSARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSART

    Assart is a total Extirpation thereof. See WASTE. What we call Assartum, is elsewhere termed Disboscatio. Assart was also used for a Parcel of Land assarted. See ASSART. ASSART

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

  • ATTIREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/phytology/ATTIRE

    in botany, is used to denote the third part or division of the flower of a plant; the other two being the Empalement and the Foliation. See FLOWER. See also EMPALEMENT. This Attire is of two kinds; Semini-form, and Florid. The Semini-form Attire...

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

  • AUTHORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHOR

    AUTOR, properly denotes one who created or produced any thing; and is applied by way of eminence to the first cause, viz. God—Thus we say the author of nature, etc. See CAUSE, GOD, NATURE, etc. The word is Latin, formed of the Greek, αὐτός, ipse. The...

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

  • AVERTAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVERTA

    in our Law Books, properly signify Oxen or Horses used for the Plough; but in a general Sense, any Cattle. When mention is made of one Beast, they say, Quidam equus, vel quidam bos: When of two, or more, they do not say Egui or Bowes, but Averia.

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

  • ACQUESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACQUEST

    between Acquests, and hereditary Effects. The Civil Law allows none. See HEIR, HEREDITARY, etc.The Word is also popularly used for Conquest, or Places acquired by the Sword. ACQUEST

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

  • ACRASIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACRASIA

    ACRASIA, ἀκρασία, is used by some Writers in Physic, for the Excess or Predominancy of one Quality above another ; either in a Mixture, or in the Constitution of a human Body. See CRASIS, TEMPERAMENT, CONSTITUTION. ACRASIA

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

  • AURELIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURELIA

    a Term used by natural Historians for the first apparent Change of the Eruca, or Maggot of any Species of Insect. See INSECT. Aurelia is the same with what other Writers call Nymphaea. See NYMPHA. AURELIA

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

  • AUREOLAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUREOLA

    of the Victory which they have obtained. See CROWN. F. Sirmond says, the Custom hereof was borrowed from the Heathens, who used to encompass the Heads of their Deities with such Rays. The Word Aureola, in its Original, signified a Jewel which was...

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

  • AD OCTOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AD%20OCTO

    OCTO, i.e. to the eighth number; a term used by some ancient philosophers to denote the highest or superlative degree; because in their way of distinguishing qualities, they reckoned no degree above the eighth. See DEGREE, HUMOR, QUALITY, etc. AD OCTO

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

  • ADDRESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDRESS

    to send or direct anything to a person. At Paris, their office of intelligence is called Bureau d'Adresse. Address is also used for dexterity. See DEXTERITY. ADDRESS

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