Cyclopædia
Assuming benediction is required, the following 5 results were found.
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ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT
on the Doctor, in the Memoirs de l'Academ. Anno 1703. The Ceremony whereby Abbots are created, is properly call'd Benediction ; or sometimes, tho abusively, Consecration. See BENEDICTION, and CONSECRATION. It antiently consisted in cloathing him with...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE
Articles of Death, Articulus Mortis, the last Pangs, or Agony of a dying Person. See AGONY. The Pope usually sends his Benediction to the Cardinals, &c. in Articulo Mortis. Article,in Arithmetic, signifies the Number 10, or any Number justly divisible...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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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. ——...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ALCANTARAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALCANTARA
ALCANTARA.— Order of Alcantara, was an ancient Military Order, denominated from a City of that Name in the Kingdom of Spain. See KNIGHT, ORDER, &c.Alphonso IX. having recovered Alcantara from the Moors, in the Year 1212; committed the Custody and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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AUSCULTAREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AUSCULTARE
AUSCULTARE, in our ancient customs.—In regard the reading of prayers with a graceful tone or accent, makes some impression on the hearers; there was anciently a person appointed, in monasteries, to hear the monks read, who instructed them how to perform...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law