Cyclopædia
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ARISTARCHUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTARCHUS
its original Greek, signifies, good Prince; but in its ordinary Use among the Learned, is understood of a very severe Critic; there having been a Grammarian of that Name, who criticized on the Verses of the very best Poets. See CRITIC and CRITICISM....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABBREVIATUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ABBREVIATURE
some of the Letters, and substituting certain Marks, or Characters in their Place. See SYMBOL. Lawyers, Physicians, &c. use abundance of Abbreviatures ; partly for the sake of Expedition, and partly for that of Mystery. A List of the principal...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Grammar
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ALECTOROMANCYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALECTOROMANCY
an ancient Kind of Divination, performed by means of a Cock. See DIVINATION.This Art was in use among the Greeks; and the manner of it was this—A Circle was made on the Ground, and divided into 24 equal Portions, or Spaces; in each of which Spaces was...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ACCELERATOR Urinaehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCELERATOR%20Urinae
made a Pair of Muscles; thus called from its Office in expediting the Discharge of the Urine and Semen. See MUSCLE, PENIS, USE. It arises tendinous from the upper and sore-part of the Urethra; but soon grows fleshy, passes under the Pubis, and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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SERIES, etc. This Method was first invented by Dr. Wallis; as appears from his Opera Mathematica, where he shows its Use in Geometry, in finding the Areas of Superficies, and the Contents of Solids, and their Proportions.—But the Method of Fluxions,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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DE SPINIS ET BOSCO, signifies an ancient privilege granted to the officers of forests, to take to their own use, thorns, brush, and windfalls, within their own precincts or liberties. See FOREST.
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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