Cyclopædia
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MOUNThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/MOUNT
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AMBOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/AMBO
The Term is derived from αναβαίνω, I mount.—The Latins also called it Analogium; by reason they read there. The Ambo was mounted upon two Sides; and hence some derive the Appellation, from ambo, both. The Gospel was read at the Top of the Ambo; the...
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ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK
ARK, or Arc, or Arch, Arēs, in Geometry, Astronomy, etc. See ARC. Ark, Arca, in the Scripture-Language, a kind of floating Vessel built by Noah, for the Preservation of the several Species of Animals, from the Deluge. See DELUGE. The Ark has afforded...
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ARMONIACKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ARMONIACK
ARMONIACK, or rather Ammoniac, in natural History, a sort of volatile Salt; whereof there are two Kinds; ancient and modern. See SALT. The ancient Sal Ammoniac, called also Sal Cyrenaica, described by Pliny and Dioscorides, was a native Salt, generated...
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CHEVALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CHEVAL
Foot long. Its Use is to defend a Passage, slop a Breach, or make a Retrenchment to slop the Cavalry. 'Tis sometimes also mounted on Wheels, with Artificial Fires, to roll down in an Assault. Errard observes, that the Prince of Orange us'd to inclose...
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ARTILLERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTILLERY
apart for the Artillery, or large Fire-arms. Trail or Train of Artillery, is a Set, or certain Number of Pieces of Ordnance mounted on Carriages, with all their Furniture fit for Marching—To it frequently belong Mortar-pieces, with Bombs, Carcasses, &c....
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ASCENSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCENSION
See ASCENT, ASCENDANT, ASCENDING, etc. Ascension is particularly used for that miraculous Elevation of our Saviour, when he mounted to Heaven in the Sight of his Apostles. Hence also, Ascension Day, a Festival of the Church, held ten Days before...
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ARIANISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARIANISM
ARIANISM, or Arianism,an ancient Heresy in the Church, broached by Arius, in the beginning of the fourth Century. See ARIAN. He denied that the Son was God consubstantial and coequal with the Father. He owned that the Son was the Word, but denied that...
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AMBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/manage/AMBLE
AMBLE, Ambling, in Horsemanship, a peculiar kind of Pace, wherein a Horse’s two Legs of the same Side, move at the same time. See PACE. The ambling Horse changes Sides at each remove; two Legs of a side being in the Air, and two, on the ground, at the...
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ARIEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARIES
ARIES also denotes a Battering Ram; being a military Engine much in use among the ancient Romans, to batter and beat down the Walls of Places besieged. See MACHINE. Of this there were two kinds; the one rude and simple, the other artificial and...
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ANTITYPEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTITYPE
ANTITYPE, a Greek Word, properly signifying a Type or Figure corresponding to some other Type. See TYPE. The Word Antitype, ἀντίτυπον, occurs twice in the New Testament, viz. in the Epistle to the Hebrews, IX. 24. and in St. Peter, I Ep. III. 21. where...
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ASSASSINhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSASSIN
ASSASSIN, a Person who kills another with the Advantage either of an Inequality in the Weapons, or by meansof the Situation of the Place, or by attacking him at unawares. See MURDER, DUEL, etc. The Word Assassin is said, by some, to have been brought...
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AGONALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AGONALIA
AGONALIA, or Agona, in antiquity, feasts celebrated by the Romans, in honor of Janus; or, as some will have it, in honor of the god Agonus, whom the Romans used to invoke upon their undertaking any business of importance. See FEAST. Authors vary as to...
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