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

    ACCOUNT, or Accompt, a calculus or computation of the number of certain things. See CALCULUS and NUMBER. There are various ways of accounting; as, by enumeration, or setting one by one, and by the rules of arithmetic, addition, subtraction, etc. See...

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

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

    ANTIPODES, or Antoecians, in Geography, a relative Term, understood of such Inhabitants of the Earth as live diametrically opposite to one another. See EARTH. The Antipodes are those who live in Parallels of Latitude equally distant from the Equator,...

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

  • ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMIRAL

    ADMIRAL, Admiratus, Admiralty, a great officer, who commands the naval forces of a kingdom or state; and before whom all causes are cognizable, relating to the sea. See NAVY, SEA, etc.Authors are divided about the origin and denomination of this...

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

  • ANALOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALOGY

    a certain Relation, Proportion, or Agreement, which several Things, in other respects different, bear to each other.—Such is that between the Bull in the Heavens, and the Animal so called on Earth. The Word is Greek, Ἀναλογία (Analogia); which the...

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    Observations, were intent on tracing the Paths and Periods of the heavenly Bodies; they discovered a constant settled Relation or Analogy, between them and things below; and hence were led to conclude, these to be the Parcae, the Destinies, so much...

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

  • ANTECEDENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTECEDENT

    ANTECEDENT, in the Schools, something that precedes, or goes before another, in respect of time; from the Latin Preposition ante, before, and cedens of cedere, to go. In this Sense the Word stands opposed to Subsequent. An Antecedent Decree, is a Decree...

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

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

    GEOMETRY,or the Doctrine of EXTENDED, 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,...

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  • AIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AID

    AID, or Aide, Auxilium, literally denotes the Help, Succor, or Assistance, which any Person lends another when too weak to do, or avoid something. See ASSISTANT. The Word is French, formed, according to M. Menage, from the Italian Aiutare; and that from...

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

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

    ANTIPATHY, Antipathia, a natural Enmity, or Aversion of one Body to another. In this Sense, the Word stands opposed to Sympathy. See SYMPATHY. Such is commonly said to be between the Salamander and the Tortoise, the Vine and the Elm, the Toad and the...

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

  • APOCALYPSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCALYPSE

    APOCALYPSE, Apocalypsis, q.d. Revelation; the Name of the last Book in the Canon of Scripture. See CANON and BIBLE. The Apocalypse contains Discoveries, or Revelations relating to many important Mysteries of Christian Faith; made to the Apostle St....

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

  • APATURIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/APATURIA

    APATURIA, in Antiquity, Feasts celebrated by the Athenians in honor of Bacchus. See FEAST. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀπάτη, Fraud. It is said to have been instituted in memory of a fraudulent Victory, obtained by Aegeus King of Athens, over...

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

  • ALGEBRAICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRAICAL

    this Sense, we say, Algebraical Characters, or Symbols. See CHARACTER. Algebraical Curve, is a Curve, wherein the Relation of the Abscissas to the Semiordinates, may be defined by an Algebraical Equation. See CURVE. These are also called Geometrical...

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

  • ADVOWEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVOWEE

    ADVOWEE, or Avower, or Advocate of a Church, was heretofore the Patron, or Defender of the Rights thereof. See ADVOCATE, PATRON, etc. The word is French, Advoué, or Avoué, of the verb Avouer, to avow, own, acknowledge dependence, subjection, etc. ——...

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    ARCHITECTONIC, that which builds a thing up regularly, according to the nature and intentions thereof. Thus, that plastic power, spirit, or whatever else it bewhich hatches the ova of females into living creaturesof the same species, is by some called...

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

  • AMAZONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AMAZON

    AMAZON, in Antiquity, a Term signifying a bold, courageous Woman; capable of daring, hardy Achievements. See VIRAGO, HEROINE, etc. The Word is borrowed from the Amazons, a Nation of warlike Women, in Scythia, inhabiting near the Tanais; who lived...

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

  • ANECDOTEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANECDOTES

    and seems to be the only Person among the Ancients, who has represented Princes, such as they are in their domestic Relation. Varillas has published Anecdotes of the House of Medici. The Title Anecdotes is also given to such Works of the Ancients as...

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

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

    ABSTINENCE, Abstinencia, the Habit of restraining or containing one's self from some Pleasure, or Enjoyment. See PLEASURE. The Word is compounded of the Latin abs, from ; and teneo, I hold. The Jews were oblig'd to abstain from their Wives at certain...

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

  • Arithmetichttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic

    of DISCRETE or Discontinuous QUANTITY, viz. Number, Ratio, Proportion,&c. Kinds, as Integer, Fraction, Decimal, Surd, &c. Relations, as Root, Power, Square, Cube, &c. Rules or Operations thereof, as Notation, Numeration, Addition, Subtraction, &c....

    • Type: Category

  • ASPECThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/perspective/ASPECT

    is used for the Situation of the Stars, or Planets, in respect of each other; or certain Configurations, and mutual Relations between the Planets, arising from their Situations in the Zodiac. See STAR, PLANET, etc. Though such Configurations may be...

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

  • ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE

    of great Service in a Language, as they contribute to the more neat and precise expressing of several Properties and Relations which must otherwise be lost. —And hence one great Disadvantage of the Latin, above other Languages which have Articles; in...

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