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  • ABBREVIATUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ABBREVIATURE

    or ABBREVIATION, a Contraction of a Word, or Passage ; made by dropping 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...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Grammar
  • AD Pondus Omniumhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AD%20Pondus%20Omnium

    Pondus Omnium, the weight of the whole; an abbreviation among physicians, etc., signifying that the last prescribed ingredient is to weigh as much as all the others before. See ABBREVIATION. AD Pondus Omnium

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified
  • ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST

    his Works. Now it being a frequent Practice with this Author to transpose the Letters of his Words, and to make use of Abbreviations, and other ways of Concealment; as in Tartar, which he would write Sutratar; for Nitrum, Mutrin, &c. 'tis supposed...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Chymistry
  • ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET

    ALPHABET, the several Letters of a Language, disposed in their natural or accustomed Order. See LETTER, and LANGUAGE.The Word is formed from the Names of the two first Letters of the Greek Alphabet, Alpha, Beta; which were borrowed from those of the...

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