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  • AMENDE Honorablehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMENDE%20Honorable

    and beg pardon of God, the King, or the Court, for some ill deed. The Phrase 'amende honorable' is more peculiarly used where a Person is condemned to come into Court, or into the Presence of some Person injured; and make an open Recantation, etc....

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

  • TETRACTYC ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/TETRACTYC%20ARITHMETIC

    ARITHMETIC, is that wherein only the Figures 1, 2, 3, and 0, are used. We have a Treatise of this Arithmetic, by Erhard Weigel: But both Binary and this are little better than Curiosities, especially with regard to Practice; inasmuch, as the Numbers may...

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

  • ALMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMS

    to the Poor. See CHARITY, ALMONER, &c. The Romanists also extend the Term to what is given to the Church, or other pious Uses.—Hence, what the Church holds on this footing, is called Tenure in Alms; for according to Rastrall, Alms, or Tenure in Alms, is...

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

  • APICEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/phytology/APICES

    oval Particles of various Colours, and exquisitely formed; called the Farina Foecundans. See FARINA FOECUNDANS. What the Uses of these are, is not entirely agreed: Some have guessed them to be a kind of male Sperm which falling down into the Flower,...

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

  • ARCHIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHIVE

    or Archives, a chamber wherein the records, charters, and other papers and evidences of a house or community are preserved. See RECORD, PAPER, etc. Thus, we say the archives of a college, of a monastery, etc. The archives of ancient Rome were in the...

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

  • TO THE KINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/to-the-king

    has sound the happy Secret, to make even Contention do you Homage ; and turn Opposition itself into Approbation, and Applause. THERE is a Time reserv'd in Fate for every Nation to arrive at its Height; and the uppermost Place on the Terrestrial Ball is...

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

  • ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT

    thence the Greeks ἀββᾶς, which the Latins retain'd, Abbas ; and hence our Abbot, the French Abbe, &c. St. Mark and St. Paul use the Syriac Abba in their Greek ; by reason it was then commonly known in the Synagogues, and the primitive Assemblies of the...

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

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    of the soul. See VOLUNTARY and SPONTANEOUS. Act, in a legal sense, is an instrument or other matter in writing; of use to declare or justify the truth of a thing. In this sense, Records, Decrees, Sentences, Reports, Certificates, etc. are called Acts....

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

  • AGAThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AGAT

    wax will stick to. See SEAL, ENGRAVING, etc.The gold wire-drawers burnish their gold with an agate;whence the instrument made use of on that occasion, is called Agate. See GOLD-WIRE.Mr. Boyle takes agates to have been formed of separate beds, or strata...

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

  • ASHEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASHES

    in the Memoirs of the Royal Academy. See the Substance of the Dispute under the Article Metal. Ashes,are of considerable Use in making Lixiviums, or Lyes, for the Purposes of Medicine, Bleaching, Sugar-Works, etc. See LIXIVIUM; see also BARILLA, etc....

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

  • CHESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game/CHESS

    Donatus, on Terence's Eunuch, observes, that Pyrrhus, the most knowing and expert Prince of his Age, ranging a Battle, made use of the Men at Chess to form his Designs; and to shew the Secrets thereof to others. Vopiscus, in his Life of Proculus,...

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

  • AETHERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AETHER

    of any such specific Matter; and think the Air itself, by that immense Tenuity and Expansion it is found capable of, may diffuse itself through the interstellar Spaces, and be the only Matter found therein. See AIR.In effect, Ether, being no Object of...

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

  • AMULEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMULET

    some of these external Medicines do answer; for that he himself having once been subject to bleed at the Nose, and reduced to use several Remedies to check it; found that Moss of a dead Man’s Skull, tho only applied so as to touch the Skin till the Moss...

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

  • ARTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ARTERY

    Greek, ἀρτηρία; which some imagine derived from ἀήρ, Aer, the Air, and τηρέω, tereo, to keep: But others who understand the Use of the Part better, derive it from ἄρτι τὴν ῥύσιν, because of its continual Throbbing or Beating. The Arteries are ordinarily...

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

  • ANGLINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLING

    Malt; or sinking a Box of Worms, with small holes for them to creep slowly out at, &c. To draw Salmon or Trout together, they use a Composition of fine Clay incorporated with Blood, and Malt ground. To learn what Bait is best for any Fish at any time;...

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

  • ARIANISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARIANISM

    the Heresy of the Arians on foot in the West.—Indeed he rather showed himself a Photinian, than an Arian; only that he made use of the same Passages of Scripture, and the same Arguments against the Divinity of our Saviour; with the proper Arians. See...

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

  • ARCHDUKEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHDUKE

    natural to them. ARCHERS, a kind of militia or soldiery, armed with bows and arrows. See ARM, MILITIA, etc. They were much in use in former times; but are nowlaid aside, excepting in Turkey, and some of the Easterncountries; where there are companies of...

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

  • ABELIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABELIANS

    the Sect, and the Name. 'Tis true, the Rabbins do hold, that Adam, after the Death of Abel, remain'd a long time without any use of Marriage ; and till the Time when he begot Seth : but to say that this was 130 Years is a manifest Error, and contrary to...

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

  • ANALYTICShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALYTICS

    Analytica, the Doctrine, and Use of Analyses. See ANALYSIS. The great Advantage of the present Mathematics above the ancient, is chiefly in Point of Analytics. The Authors on the ancient Analytics, are enumerated by Pappus, in the Preface to his 7th...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    such a thing as Antipodes. But this Piece of History is controverted by the Authors of the Mem. de Trevoux; having been made use of, it seems, by some Persons, to show that the Church has been mistaken in its Decisions The only Account extant of the...

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