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

    would make downright Nonsense, were the Readers to keep to the strict import of the Words. But the Truth is, we are not so critical about the Matter; if the Meaning comes within our reach we jump at it, and are glad to take it; without waiting to see...

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

  • CRITICISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CRITICISM

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

  • CRITICAL Dayshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CRITICAL-Days

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

  • ARISTARCHUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTARCHUS

    ARISTARCHUS,in its original Greek, signifies, good Prince; but in its ordinary Use among the Learned, is understood of a very severe Critic; there having been a Grammarian of that Name, who criticized on the Verses of the very best Poets. See CRITIC and...

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

  • 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...

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

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    AFFIRMATION, Affirmatio, a positive Proposition, alleging the Truth of something. See PROPOSITION, and TRUTH. Affirmation is defined by the Logicians, an Act whereby we attribute one Idea to another; as supposing it to belong, or agree thereto—As when,...

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

  • ATAXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATAXY

    Ataxia, a want of order or regularity—The term is chiefly used in medicine, where the order of the critical days, or other phenomena of a disease, is inverted. See CRITICAL. The physicians have frequent recourse to an Ataxy or irregularity of the...

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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    ACTION, Actio, in Physics, is the production of an effect or the manner of an active cause. See ACTION and ACTIVE. The idea of action is so familiar to us that a definition may as easily obscure as explain it. Some Schoolmen, however, attempt to...

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

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    ART, Ars, is defined by the Schoolmen, a habit of the mind operative or effective according to right reason; or, somewhat more intelligibly, a habit of the mind prescribing rules for the due production of certain effects; or the introducing of changes...

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

  • ANIMADVERSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMADVERSION

    ANIMADVERSION, sometimes signifies Correction;sometimes Remarks, or Observations made on a Book, etc.,and sometimes, a serious Consideration and Reflection on any Subject, by way of Criticism. The Word is formed of the Latin animadvertere, to...

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

  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    is erroneous;there having been a Hebrew Grammar composed by R. Saadias Gaon, many Years before R. Judah. In M. Simon's Critical History of the Old Testament, we have a Catalogue of Hebrew Grammars; at the Head of which is this of R. Saadias: M. Simon,...

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

  • AQUAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/hydrology/AQUA

    AQUA, in natural History, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, etc. See WATER. The Word is pure Latin, and supposed to be compounded of a and qua, q.d. from which; alluding to the Opinion that Water is the Basis or Matter of all Bodies. Aqua fortis, is a...

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

  • ANATHEMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANATHEMA

    ANATHEMA, an Excommunication, attended with Execrations and Curses. See EXCOMMUNICATION. There are two Kinds of Anathemas; the one Judicatory, the other Abjuratory. The former can only be pronounced by a Council, a Pope, Bishop, or other qualified...

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

  • ALABASTERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ALABASTER

    ALABASTER, Alabastrites, in Natural History, a kind of Stone, softer than Marble, yet harder than Plaster of Paris. See STONE. It is found of all Colors; some extremely white and shining, which is the most common; some red, like Coral;and other called...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ADAMITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADAMITES

    ADAMITES, Adamitae, a sect of ancient heretics who took upon them to imitate the nakedness of Adam; as if man had been reinstated in his original innocence. They assisted in the temples naked and had to do with women in public. Prodicus was their...

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

  • ACHILLEIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACHILLEIS

    ACHILLEIS, or Achilleid, a celebrated Poem of Statius, wherein he proposed to deliver the whole Life and Actions of that Hero. See POEM. It only takes in his Infancy, the Poet being prevented from proceeding, by Death. The Achilleid is of the Heroic or...

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

  • ANNOTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNOTATION

    ANNOTATION, a succinct Commentary, or Remark on any Book, or Writing; in order to clear up some Passage, or to draw some Induction or Consequence from it. See COMMENTARY, etc. The Critics of the last Age have made learned Annotations on the Scriptures;...

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

  • ASIDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASIDE

    ASIDE,in the Drama.—An Aside, Secorsim, is something which an Actor speaks apart, or, as it were, to himself, for the Instruction of the Audience, by discovering some Sentiment which otherwise did not appear, and which is to be concealed from the rest...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    ANTIPODES, or Antoecians, in Geography, a relative Term, understood of such Inhabitants of the Earth as live diametrically opposite to one another. See EARTH. The Antipodes are those who live in Parallels of Latitude equally distant from the Equator,...

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