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  • ANCHORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCHOR

    an Instrument used at Sea, and in Rivers; to retain and fasten a Vessel by. See SHIP. An Anchor is a large strong piece of Iron, crooked at one End, and formed into two Barbs, resembling a Hook; fastened at the other end by a Cable. See CABLE, etc. The...

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

  • APOTHEOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/APOTHEOSIS

    Death, were raised into the Order of the Gods. See PYTHAGOREANS. And hence the Ancients deified all the Inventors of things useful to Mankind; and those who had done any important Service to the Commonwealth. Tiberius proposed to the Roman Senate the...

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

  • ANTIQUATEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIQUATED

    Antiquatus, something obsolete or grown out of date, or use. See OBSOLETE. ANTIQUE, Antiquus, something that is ancient. See ANCIENT. The Term is chiefly used by Architects, Sculptors, and Painters; who apply it to such pieces of Architecture,...

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

  • AUDITORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITORY

    an assembly of persons, hearing, or attending to a person who speaks in public. See ASSEMBLY, ORATION, etc. AUDITORY is also used for the seat or bench where a magistrate, or judge, hears causes. See BENCH. At Rome, the several Magistrates had...

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

  • AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER

    reckoned among the native Phosphori. See FRICTION, PHOSPHORUS, LIGHT, etc. Amber is reputed of some medicinal Efficacy; being used in Suffumigations, to remove Defluxions; and in Powder, as an Alterant, Absorbent, Sweetener, and Astringent. See...

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

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    as a proper Disposition of the Things of Nature by human Thought and Experience, so as to make them answer the Designs and Uses of Mankind. See EXPERIMENT, &c. Nature, according to that Philosopher, is sometimes free, and at her own Disposal; and then...

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

  • ASTRAGALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ASTRAGAL

    first Bone of the Tarsus. See TALUS and TARSUS. Some also apply the Name to the Vertebrae of the Neck.—Homer, in his Odyssey, uses the Term on this Occasion. See VERTEBRAE. ASTRAGAL, in Architecture, is a little round Member, in form of a Ring, or...

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

  • ACCOUNThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOUNT

    keeping of accounts. Such are pounds, angels, etc. See MONEY OF ACCOUNT; see also POUND, etc. Account is also a relative term used in respect to a company or society when two or more persons have received or disbursed for each other; or when this has...

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

  • Geometryhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry

    hereof, as Perimeter, Area, &c. Operations relating hereto, as Bissecting, Dividing, Multiplying, Measuring, &c. Instruments used therein, as Compasses, Ruler, Square, Parallelism, Scale, &c. Curves, as Circle, Cycloid, Cissoid, Catenaria, Caustic,...

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  • ANTIENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIENT

    See ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE, etc. When we say absolutely, the Ancients, we mean the Greeks and Romans. Thus, the Ancients used to burn their Dead. The Learned have been greatly divided of late days, with regard to the Preference between the Ancients and...

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

  • ABSINTHIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/absinthium

    hereof enumerated by Botanists; at least 30. Those which obtain in Medicine, are, 1°, the Roman or small, call'd also Pontic; used as a Stomachic, Astringent, Discutient, and to prevent Putrefaction. — Etmuller says, there is not a chronic Distemper in...

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

  • ABSYNTHIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSYNTHIUM

    hereof enumerated by Botanists; at least 30. Those which obtain in Medicine, are, 1°, the Roman or small, call'd also Pontic; used as a Stomachic, Astringent, Discutient, and to prevent Putrefaction. — Etmuller says, there is not a chronic Distemper in...

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

  • ANTICHTHONEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTICHTHONES

    inhabit Countries opposite to each other. The Word is Compounded of ἀντί, contra, and γῆ, Terra. The Term Antichthones is now used in the same Sense with Antipodes; but the Ancients used it in a different one. They considered the Earth as divided by the...

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

  • APOPLEXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/APOPLEXY

    only differing in the greater or less Difficulty of Respiration. The more modern Authors distinguish apoplexies, from their Cause, into Sanguineous and Pituitous; to which may be added Lymphatic, Polypous, etc. The Fit is usually preceded by a violent...

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

  • APERTUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APERTURE

    or continuous Subject. See OPENING. The Word comes from the Latin Apertura, of Aperire to open. In Geometry, Aperture is used for the Space left between two Lines which mutually incline towards each other to form an Angle. See ANGLE. In Optics, Aperture...

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

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    from all kind of sensible Pleasure, to render their Bodies more robust and hardy. See ATHLETA. Abstinence is particularly used for a spare Diet, or a flender parsimonious use of Food. See FOOD, and DIET. The Physicians relate Wonders of the Effects of...

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

  • ARCANUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCANUM

    of wine put to the powder; two or three cohobations are made: which leave a powder, much like the Prince’s powder; of good use in the gout, dropsy, scurvy, etc. It operates chiefly by stool. Arcanum Foviale, is made of an amalgam of mercury and tin,...

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

  • ACACIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ACACIA

    ACACIA, in Medicine, an inspissated Juice, of a Shrub of the Thorn kind; used as an Astringent. See ASTRINGENT. There are two Kinds, the Vera and Germanica.The Acacia Vera, is brought from the Levant; and supposed to be the Juice of the Pods of a large...

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

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

    or DYADIC ARITHMETIC, is that wherein only two Figures, Unity, or 1, and 0, are used. See BINARY ARITHMETIC. M. Dangicourt, in the Berlin Miscell., gives us a Specimen of the Use hereof in Arithmetical Progressions; where he shows, that the Laws of...

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

  • ANTIPATHYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIPATHY

    great measure imaginary, mixed a little Honey in a Medicine applied to her Foot: But he soon repented his Curiosity; for it caused a strange Disorder in her, which ceased upon removing of the Medicine. Useful in Philosophy. --Dr. Mather relates that a...

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