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  • Metaphysicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/metaphysics

    as Unity, Multitude, Infinity, Universal, &c. Quantity, Quality, Whole, Part, &c. Genus, Species, Difference, &c. Proper, Opposite, Circumslance, External, &c. Effects hereos, Knowledge, Science, Art, Experience, &c. Conditions, Probability, Certainty,...

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  • AGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGE

    At eleven years, his teeth are very long, yellow, black, and foul; but he will cut even, and his teeth stand directly opposite to one another. At twelve, the upper teeth hang over the lower. At thirteen, the tusks are worn close to his chaps, if he have...

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

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    as much service as it was of disservice in the ascending one. Some of the Germans have also brought the Air-Pump to do the opposite Office of a Condenser: But this is not to make the Instrument so much better, as more complex. See CONDENSER. The...

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

  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    Effervescence ensues thereon. See EFFERVESCENCE, etc. And hence arises the grand Division of Natural Bodies into the two opposite Classes of Acids and Alkalies. See ACID. Boerhaave scarce takes this Circumstance to be enough to constitute any...

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

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

    of the Heart, consists of two reciprocal Motions, a Systole or Contraction, and a Diastole or Dilatation: But they keep opposite Times; the Systole of the one answering to the Diastole of the other. See PULSE, SYSTOLE, and DIASTOLE. All the Arteries of...

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

  • ARRIEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARRIERE

    ARRONDIE, in Heraldry, a Cross-Arrondie, or rounded, is that whose arms are composed of sections of a circle, not opposite to each other, so as to make the arm bulge out thicker in one part than another; but both the sections of each arm lie the same...

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

  • ANTICORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICOR

    of the Size and Figure of an Apple, occasioned by a sanguine and bilious Humour; and appearing in the Horse’s Breast opposite to his Heart. A late Author affirms that the generality of Writers on that Subject have been mistaken as to this Disease;...

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

  • ANTOECIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTOECI

    are frequently confounded with Antisci. See ANTISCI. The Antoeci have precisely the same Hours of the Day and Night; but opposite Seasons: when it's 12 o'Clock in the longest Summer Day with one; it's 12 o'Clock of the shortest Winter's Day with the...

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

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

    or Continuous QUANTITY, viz. l°, Lines, Right, Perpendicular, Parallel, Oblique, &c. Angles, Acute, Scalenous, Vertical, Opposite, &c. z°, Figures, or Surfaces, Triangle, Square, Parallelogram, Trapezium, Polygon, &c. Circumstances hereof, as Perimeter,...

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  • ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET

    corresponding are to keep by them. See CYPHER. - It is properly an Alphabet of the usual Letters disposed in their Order; opposite to, or underneath which, are the secret Characters corresponding thereto, with the blank or useless Letters, and the other...

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

  • ABLATIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ABLATIVE

    in Grammar, the sixth Case of Nouns. See CASE. The Ablative is opposite to the Dative ; the first expressing the Aaion of taking away, and the latter that of giving. See DATIVE. The Word is Latin, form'd ab auferendo, taking away. Priscian also calls it...

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

  • ATLANTIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIS

    which amounts, in a few Words, to what follows.—"The Atlantis was a large Island in the Western Ocean, situated before, or opposite to, the Straits of Gibraltar. Out of this Island there was an easy Passage into some others, which lay near a large...

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

  • ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT

    in the general, wherever sound. See GENERAL. From the Knowledge of Abstracts we arrive at that of Concretes, which is the opposite Term ; Concrete denoting a General or Abstract Idea's being attach'd to same particular Subject, or consider'd as combin'd...

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

  • ANTARCTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTARCTIC

    or Antarctic, Pole, the Southern Pole, or End of the Earth’s Axis; so called because it is opposite to the Arctic or North Pole. See POLE, SOUTH, ARCTIC, etc. The Stars near the Antarctic Pole never appear above our Horizon. See STAR, HORIZON, etc. The...

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

  • ANTAGONISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTAGONIST

    an Adversary; or a Party opposite to another in any Combat or Dispute. See ADVERSARY, etc. The Word is formed from the Greek ἀντί, contra, against, and ἀγωνίζομαι, oppono, I oppose. ANTAGONIST

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

  • ANTITHESIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ANTITHESIS

    of Opposition to each other, that the Excellency of the one, and the Folly of the other may appear the more strongly. See OPPOSITE and OPPOSITION. Such is that of Cicero, in the second Catilinarian: “On the one side stands Modesty, on the other...

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

  • AMSDORFIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/AMSDORFIANS

    Leader Amsdorf. Sanderus, Her. 186, represents them as maintaining, that good Works were not only unprofitable, but even opposite and pernicious to Salvation—The Amsdorfians were rigid Confessionists. AMSDORFIANS

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