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  • AUSTERITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUSTERITY

    AUSTERITY, in a moral sense, signifies severity, or a rigid carriage and deportment in any thing. Thus we say, austerity of manners; the austerities of the monastic life. The austerity of the Roman censors kept the people in their duty. The greatest...

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

  • AUSTEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUSTERE

    AUSTERE, implies a rough, astringent taste; such as that of sloe-berries. Austere things differ from acerb or sour ones; in that they contract the tongue somewhat less, and are devoid of acidity. The word is from the Greek, αὐστηρός, austere. AUSTERE

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

  • AUSTRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUSTRAL

    six last signs of the zodiac; so called, because they are on the south-side of the equinoctial. The word is derived from auster, the south-wind. See AUSTER. AUSTRAL

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

  • ADVENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ADVENT

    but it was anciently otherwise, the week next Christmas being reputed the first; and the numeration carried backward. Great austerity was practiced in the ancient Church during this season. At first, they fasted three days a week; but were afterward...

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

  • ACERBhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACERB

    before they are ripe. See FRUIT, MATURITY, etc. The physicians usually make Acerb an intermediate savour between acid, austere, and bitter. See ACID, etc. All matters which come under this denomination are astringent. See ASTRINGENT. ACERB

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

  • ACACIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ACACIA

    Tree, growing in Egypt and Arabia. — Some Naturalists will have it the same Plant that yields the Gum Arabick. It is very austere and binding; and on that account good against Fluxes. — Choose that of a tan-colour, smooth, and shining; and an astringent...

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