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  • APPROVERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROVER

    See APPEAL. He is so called because he must prove what he hath alleged in his Appeal. This Proof should either be by Battle, or by the Country, at the choice of the Appellee. See PROOF, BATTLE, PAYS, etc. Approvers of the King, are those who have the...

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

  • ARMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/military-art/ARMY

    of an admiral; with other inferior officers under him. See NAVY, ADMIRAL, SHIP, etc. We say, an army ranged in form of battle—The march of an army—The retreat of an army—The review of an army, etc. See MILITARY, BATTLE, MARCH, RETREAT, REVIEW, CAMP,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Military art

  • ACCENSUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENSUS

    were a kind of supernumerary soldiers, kept on foot to be ready to supply the place of those who were killed or wounded in battle. And these, according to Asconius Pedianus, because they were added to the proper number, were called Accensi, quia...

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

  • ASSAPEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSAPES

    Word is derived from the Turkish Saph, which signifies Rank, File, One; from whence they have formed Asphaph, to range in Battle.

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

  • ARCH-TREASURERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH-TREASURER

    which was given to the Duke of Bavaria, by Emperor Ferdinand II, who took it away from FrederickElector Palatine, after the Battle of Prague, where he wasdefeated in maintaining his election to the Crown of Bohemia. See ELECTOR. The dignity of...

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

  • ANTHROPOPHAGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHROPOPHAGY

    horrible Repast. Livy tells us, that Hannibal made his Soldiers eat human Flesh, to render them more fierce and daring in Battle. In the southern Parts of Africa, and in some Parts of America, this horrid Practice still obtains. See CANNIBAL. The...

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

  • APOSTROPHEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/APOSTROPHE

    the finest Passages in his Works. That Apostrophe of Demosthenes, wherein he addresses himself to the Greeks slain at the Battle of Marathon, is famous. Cardinal Perron says, it has procured the Orator as much Glory as if he had raised them from the...

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

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

    Bodies and Minds, that they must be the Arbiters of our Happiness, our manner of Life, and Death? Were all they who went to Battle, and died together, born under the same Position of the Heavens? And when a Ship is to be cast away, shall it admit no...

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

  • ATTAINDERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTAINDER

    CONVICTION. A man is attainted two ways, by appearance, or by process. Attainder by appearance, is either by confession, by battle, or by verdict.—Confession, whereof attaint grows, is twofold; one at the bar before the judges, when the prisoner, upon...

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

  • Military arthttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/military-art

    Brigadier, Colonel, Captain, Serjeant, Major, Adjutant, Ensign, Quarter-Master. Tribune, Centurion, Primipilus, &c. In Battle, Siege, March, Camp, &c. Ranged in Line, Column, &c. Mo- tions, Attack, Retreat, Halt, &c. Evolutions, Wheeling, Counter-...

    • Type: Category

  • CHESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game/CHESS

    of the Game. Donatus, on Terence's Eunuch, observes, that Pyrrhus, the most knowing and expert Prince of his Age, ranging a Battle, made use of the Men at Chess to form his Designs; and to shew the Secrets thereof to others. Vopiscus, in his Life of...

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

  • ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS

    some, came the Appellation Bellum.—Diodorus Siculus takes Belus to be the same with Mars, who first trained Soldiers up to Battle. Arms of Stone, &c. even of Brass, appear to have been used before they came to Iron and Steel. Josephus assures us, that...

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

  • ARMORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMOR

    to cover the Head and Neck. Of all this furniture of War, scarcely anything is now retained. The gallantry of going to the Battle naked, without any defensive Armour, prevailed so far, that the French, during the Reign of Louis XIV, were obliged to be...

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

  • ALAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/military-art/ALA

    in the Military Art, are the two Extremes of an Army, ranged in form of Battle. See WING, ARMY, &c. ALA

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Military art

  • ACTIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ACTIA

    himself: As is observed by Servius. Actian Years, Anni Actiaci, were a series of years, commencing from the era of the Battle of Actium, called the Era of Augustus. See YEAR and EPOCH. ACTIA

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

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Brigadier, Colonel, Captain, Serjeant, Major, Adjutant, Ensign, Quarter-Master. Tribune, Centurion, Primipilus, &c. In Battle, Siege, March, Camp, &c. Ranged in Line, Column, &c. Motions, Attack, Retreat, Halt, &c. Evolutions, Wheeling, Counterwheeling,...

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

  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    as being what could never arise from mere Reason." And Plutarch, and others, make that Ardor which the Soldier feels in Battle, of the same kind with that which inspired the Prophet, Orator, and Poet. WE have here little less than a System, sufficient...

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