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  • ABJURATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABJURATION

    ; wherein, after abjuring his Liberty and free Habitation, he was allow'd to spend his Life. By Stat. 21 Jac. I. all use of Sanctuaries, and consequently of Abjuration is taken away. See SANCTUARY ABJURATION

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

  • ATTACHMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTACHMENT

    does not touch the body, which an attachment does— Yet the two are frequently confounded together. In the most common use, an attachment is an apprehension of a man by his body, to bring him to answer the action of the plaintiff—A distress with a writ,...

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

  • AMPUTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMPUTATION

    as possible—When two parallel Bones are concerned, the Flesh that grows between them must likewise be separated, before the use of the Saw. This being done, the Gripe may be slackened; to give an opportunity for searching for the large Blood-Vessels,...

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

  • ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION

    we separately consider several Modes which subsist together in one Subject. See MODE. This Abstraction the Geometricians make use of, when they consider the Length of a Body separately, which they call a Line ; omitting the Consideration of its Breadth...

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

  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    "quod huc usque sint habitivelut conditione servi." Accordingly, they proclaimed everywhere that they only took up Arms because they esteemed themselves obliged thereto by the Commandment of God. Luther, finding all his Exhortations ineffectual,...

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

  • AMALGAMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/AMALGAMATION

    is then thrown into a Vessel full of Water, where it coagulates and becomes manageable. This Calcination is in great use among Goldsmiths, and Gilders, who by this means render Gold fluid and ductile for their Purposes—Such Mixture or Amalgama being...

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

  • ANNUNCIATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUNCIATION

    in 430, we have two on the Annunciation, viz. the 17th and 18th de Sanctis; And yet there are much earlier Testimonies of its use in the Greek Church. Proclus, who died in 446; Chrysostom, in 407; and even Gregory Thaumaturgus in 265; have all of them...

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

  • ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS

    on fire by the Affusion of cold Water: So Water becomes warmer in Winter than in Summer, by Antiperistasis: And to the same Cause it is owing that Thunder and Lightning are excited in the middle Region of the Air, which is continually cold. This...

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

  • ASPERA ARTERIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPERA%20ARTERIA

    have no Cartilages, but instead of them small circular Ligaments, which are at pretty large Distances from one another.—The Use of the Cartilages, is to keep the Passage for the Air open; but in the capillary Bronchia, they would hinder the subsiding of...

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

  • ADOPTIVIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ADOPTIVI

    the latter of whom writing to the former, for an account of his faith in that point, was answered that according to the use of the language which obtains in respect of human nature, Jesus was not the natural, but only the adoptive Son of God. This...

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

  • ACHILLEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACHILLES

    same with our Millesolium; and took its Name from Achilles; who, having been the Disciple of Chiron, first brought it into use for the Cure of Wounds and Ulcers. The tendon of Achilles, Corda Achillis, is a large Tendon, formed by the Union of the...

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

  • AGNOETEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGNOETES

    day and hour knows no man; not the angels who are in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only." The same passage was made use of by the Arians, and hence the Orthodox divines of those days were induced to give various explanations thereof. Some allege...

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

  • AZYMITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZYMITES

    to those of the Latin Church, upon his excommunicating them in the XIth century. The Armenians and Maronites do also make use of azymus, or unleavened bread, in their office; on which account some Greeks call them Azymites. See ARMENIAN and MARONITE....

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

  • AUXILIARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUXILIARY

    are, have, am, or be; in French, être and avoir; in Italian, ho and sono, etc. All the modern languages we know of make use of auxiliary verbs—The reason is, that the verbs thereof do not change their terminations or endings, as those of the Latin and...

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

  • AFFIDAVIThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/AFFIDAVIT

    an Oath in Writing, sworn before some Person who hath Authority to take such Oath; and made use of, and read in Court, upon Motions, but not upon Trials, See OATH, EVIDENCE, WITNESS, etc.In the Court of Chancery is an Affidavit Office ; under the...

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

  • ACCLIVITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCLIVITY

    The Ascent of a Hill is an Acclivity; the Descent of the same a Declivity. See DECLIVITY. Some Writers of Fortification use Acclivity for Talus.See TALUS. The word is compounded of the Latin ad and clivus, Hill, Eminence. ACCLIVITY

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

  • ARABESQUEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABESQUE

    Stalks, etc. See GROTESQUE and MORESQUE. The Words take their Rise from hence, that the Jews, Arabs, and other Mahometans, use these kinds of Ornaments; their Religion forbidding them to make any Images or Figures of Men, or other Animals. See IMAGE....

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

  • AUGUSTINShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUGUSTINS

    Augustinus; the first Tome whereof contains a Discourse against Pelagianism; and the second divers Treatises of Reason; the use of Authority in Theological Matters; the State of Innocence; fall of Nature by Sin, Grace, etc.—From these several Treatises...

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

  • ASCENDINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENDING

    from the Liver by this Vein, to supply the Parts below the Diaphragm. But the Moderns have shown that it has a quite contrary Use, and serves for the Conveyance of the Blood from the lower Parts to the Head; whence its Appellation Ascendent.

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

  • ABOLITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABOLITION

    the Act of undoing, destroying, or throwing a Thing out of use. Thus, in our Laws, the Abolition of a Law, Statute, or Custom, is the abrogating or repealing it. See ABROGATION, REPEALING, STATUTE, &c. So, the Leave given by the King or Judge, to a...

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