Cyclopædia
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AMBULATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AMBULATION
in Physick, is used by some for the spreading of a Gangrene, or Mortification. See GANGRENE, &c. AMBULATION
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTINOMASYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ANTINOMASY
or rather Antonomasy, a Figure in Rhetoric, whereby a Noun Appellative is used instead of a proper Name. See FIGURE and NAME. Thus we say, the Philosopher, instead of Aristotle; the Orator, for Cicero; the Apostle, for St.Paul, etc. Thus also we call a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Rhetoric
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ACOUSTICKShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACOUSTICKS
See EAR, and HEARING.The Word is formed from the Greek ἀκοή (akoē), Hearing.Acoustic is particularly applied to Instruments used by those who are slow of Hearing; to supply that Defect.Dr. Hook says, it is by no means impossible to hear the lowest sound...
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ANTECESSORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTECESSOR
one that goes before, or leads another. See PRECURSOR, PREDECESSOR, etc. The Term is particularly used in some Universities for a Professor, who teaches, or lectures the Civil Law. ANTECESSOR
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASSEMBLAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSEMBLAGE
the Assemblage is made without either Nails or Pins,Herrera. See CARPENTRY, NAIL, etc. The Word Assemblage is also used in a more generalSense, for a Collection of several Things, so disposed together, as that the whole has an agreeable Effect.—'Tis...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANNIS SEEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIS%20SEED
Oil called Essence of Aniseed; of a very strong penetrating Smell, and efficacious in its medicinal Operation: It being also used by Confectioners to scent their Pomatums, etc. In distilling the Aniseed for the Oil; there is procured a limpid Water...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ATLANTIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIDES
among the Poets See VERGILIUS. ATLAS, in Architecture is a Name given to those Figures, or Half-Figures of Men, so much used instead of Columns, or Pilasters; to support any Member of Architecture, as a Balcony, or the like. See COLUMN, etc. These are...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APPROACHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/fortification/APPROACHES
Saps, Lodgments, Batteries, etc. See TRENCH, MINE, SAP, BATTERY, etc. Approaches, or Lines of Approach, are particularly used for Trenches dug in the Ground, and their Earth thrown up on the Side towards the Place besieged; under Shelter or Defence...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Fortification
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AMPLIATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMPLIATION
properly signifies an Enlargement; but in Law, the Word is used to denote a deferring of Judgment till the Cause be further examined. AMPLIATION
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANEMOSCOPEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANEMOSCOPE
seldom failing, by the turning of the Index about, to foretell the shifting of the Wind. See HYGROSCOPE. The Anemoscope used by the Ancients, seems, by Vitruvius’s Description of it, to have been intended rather to show which way the Wind actually blew,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARCHBISHOPhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHBISHOP
archbishops became metropolitans, and had suffragans under them. See METROPOLITAN. Athanasius appears to be the first that used the title Archbishop, which he gave occasionally to his predecessor; Gregory Nazianzen, in like manner, gave it to...
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ALLOCATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLOCATION
it as such. See ACCOUNT. The Word is formed of the Latin Allocare. Allocatio is also an Allowance made upon an Account; used in the Exchequer. See ALLOCATIO. ALLOCATION
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APPOSITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPOSITION
the Act of putting or applying one thing to another. See APPLICATION. Apposition is used in Physics, with respect to Bodies, which derive their Growth from the Adjunction or Union of neighboring Bodies. See ADJUNCTION. Most Bodies of the fossil or...
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ATTORNMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTORNMENT
by the Grant.—If the Grant be by Fine, in Court of Record, he shall be compelled to Attourn. Stat. 27 Hen. VIII. The Words used in Attournment are these; I agree me to the Grant made to you, or more commonly, Sir, I Attourn to you by force of the same...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ALMUCANTARShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/astronomy/ALMUCANTARS
Almocantharat. Almucantar-Staff, is an Instrument usually made of Pear-tree or Box, with an Arch of 15 Degrees; chiefly used to take Observations of the Sun, about the Time of its rising and setting; in order to find the Amplitude, and consequently the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANADIPLOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ANADIPLOSIS
a Figure, in which one Verse begins with the same Word wherewith the former ended. See FIGURE. The Word is sometimes also used in Physic, for a Reduplication of the Fits, or Paroxysms of Fevers; in which Sense, some Writers also call it Epanadiplosis....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APONEUROSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APONEUROSIS
See NERVE and TENDON. It sometimes also signifies the cutting off of a Nerve or Tendon. And in some Writers, we find it used for a Tendon itself. See TENDON. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἀπό (apo), away, and νεῦρον (neuron), a Nerve. APONEUROSIS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABLACTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening/ABLACTATION
the Graft is to be taken, stand so near, that the Branch or Cyon may be applied, without cutting off. Hence, 'tis chiefly used on Plants that grow in Cases ; as Orange, Lemon, Pomgranate, Vines, Jessamins, &c. The Season is April. To perform it, the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Gardening
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ALTERNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALTERNATION
a Term sometimes used for the divers Changes, or Alterations of Order, in any Number of Things proposed. See CHANCE. This is also called Permutation, etc., and is easily found, by a continual Multiplication of all the Numbers, beginning at Unity: See...
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ALTERNATIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALTERNATIVE
is particularly used for the Choice of two things proposed.—In this Sense, we say, To take the Alternative of two Propositions. See ALTERNATE. ALTERNATIVE
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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