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  • ALVIDUCAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALVIDUCA

    a Term used by some Writers for loosening Medicines. See PURGATIVE, etc. The Word is compounded of Alvus, and duco, I draw. ALVIDUCA

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

  • ASSEMBLYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSEMBLY

    also used in the military art, for the second beat of the drum, before the march. See DRUM. On hearing this, the soldiers strike their tents, roll them up, and then stand to their arms. See MARCH. The third beating is called the March, as the first is...

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

  • ASSESSORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSESSOR

    particularly used among us, for an inhabitant of a town, or village, elected by the community, to settle the taxes, and other impositions of the year, to fix the proportion which each person is to bear, and to see the collection made. See TAX, etc. By...

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

  • ADJUTANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/military-art/ADJUTANT

    or assist the major. See MAJOR. Adjutant is the same that we otherwise call Ad Major.See AD MAJOR. The term is sometimes also used for an aide-de-camp.See AIDE-DE-CAMP. The word is formed of the Latin adjutare, to help, assist. ADJUTANT

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Military art

  • ALKERMEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALKERMES

    Sugar, Ambergrease, Musk, Cinnamon, Aloes Wood, Pearls, and Leaf Gold.—But the Sweets are usually omitted. It is much used as a Cordial; especially, says Dr. Quincy, among Female Prescribers, and in compliance to them: But that Author decries its Value...

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

  • ABRASIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABRASION

    is Sometimes used among Medical Writers for the Act of wearing away the natural Mucus which covers the Membranes, and particularly those of the Stomach and Intestines, by sharp corrosive Medicines, or Humors. See STOMACH, and INTESTINES. The Word is...

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

  • ARRAYERShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARRAYERS

    Arraiatores,is used in some ancient Statutes, for such Officers as had care of the Soldiers' Armour, and saw them duly accoutred in their kinds. See ARMOUR, ACCOUTREMENTS, etc. Such were the Commissioners of Array, appointed by King Charles I. in the...

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

  • AFFINAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AFFINAGE

    is sometimes used in ancient Law-Books, for the Refining of Metals. See REFINING. AFFINAGE

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

  • ACONTIAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACONTIAS

    ACONTIAS, a Name used by some Authors, for a sort of Comet, or Meteor, whose Head appears round or oblong, and its Tail very long and slender, resembling a Javelin.See COMET, and METEOR.It takes its Denomination from a Serpent thus called, frequent in...

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

  • ACCOLADEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ACCOLADE

    ACCOLADE, a Ceremony anciently used in the conferring of Knighthood. See KNIGHT. The Accolade consisted in the King's laying his Arms about the young Knight's Neck and embracing him; in token of Friendship. After the Accolade, the Prince giving him a...

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

  • AGONALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AGONALIA

    feasts celebrated by the Romans, in honor of Janus; or, as some will have it, in honor of the god Agonus, whom the Romans used to invoke upon their undertaking any business of importance. See FEAST. Authors vary as to the etymology of this solemnity;...

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

  • ASPALATHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPALATH

    Aspalath is otherwise called Rhodium, or Rosewood, and was anciently in much Repute, as an Astringent or Dryer, but now disused. See ROSE. In Virtue, Taste, Smell, and Weight, it resembles the Lignum Aloes; and in Physic they are frequently substituted...

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

  • ASPIRATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPIRATE

    Aspiration, or Spiritus Asper,in Grammar, a Character used to denote an Aspiration. See ASPER and ASPIRATION.

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

  • AUDIENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDIENCE

    HEARING, ATTENTION, and AUDITORY. The Word is form’d from the corrupt Latin, Audentia, of Audire, to hear. Audience is also used for the Ceremonies practiced in Courts, at the admission of Ambassadors, and public Ministers, to a hearing. See AMBASSADOR,...

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

  • ADHESIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ADHESION

    LUNGS, PLEURA, PLEURISY, PHLEGMON, PNEUMONIA, etc. The adhesion of two polished planes, or two hemispheres, is a phenomenon used in support of the weight and pressure of the atmosphere. See ATMOSPHERE. The Schoolmen distinguish two kinds of certitude:...

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

  • ALHANDALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/pharmacy/ALHANDAL

    kind of Troches, composed of Colocynthis, Bdellium, and Gum Tragacanth. See TROCHE.They are esteemed good Purgatives, and are used on divers Occasions. See PURGATIVE.The Word is formed of the Arabic Handal, or Handhal, a Name for Colocynthis. See...

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

  • AURICULARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURICULAR

    WITNESS, EVIDENCE, TESTIMONY, etc. AURICULAR Confession. See CONFESSION. The little Finger is also called Auricularis, because used in cleansing the Ear. See FINGER. AURICULAR

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

  • AGITATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGITATION

    appropriated to that species of earthquake, called Tremor, Arietatio. See EARTHQUAKE.Among philosophers, it is chiefly used for an intestine commotion of the parts of any natural body. See INTESTINE.Thus, fire is said to agitate the minute particles of...

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

  • ANCYLODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ANCYLODES

    is used by some Writers in Anatomy, for the Process or shooting forth of the Shoulder-bone, in form of a Beak. See OMOPLATE. ANCYLODES

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

  • ASYMMETRYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASYMMETRY

    Asymmetria, a want of Symmetry or Proportion. See SYMMETRY. In Mathematics, the Term is particularly used for what we more usually call Incommensurability; which is when between two Quantities there is no common Measure: As, between the Side, and...

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