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

    bounds.—The orator Zicyus improved walking into a sort of dancing; and it is hence, as we are told by Quintilian, that the dance Zicyus took its name. Funius rallied his father Curio's incessant libration, or tossing from one side to another, by asking...

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

  • ANGELICAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGELICA

    called from the Angelica Roots; which are the Basis thereof. See ANGELICA-WATER. Angelica, Asteism, was also a celebrated Dance, among the ancient Greeks, performed at their Feasts. See DANCE. It was thus called, from the Greek ἄγγελος, Angelos,...

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

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

    the Confusion of Language; which would not only puzzle us, but the very Angels in Heaven, to make any thing of: Witness abundance of our Explications of Trinity, Hypostasis, Substance, Accident, Faculty, Liberty, Cause, Nature, Attraction, &c. which...

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

  • 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

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

    CHESS, a fashionable Game, perform'd with little round Pieces of Wood, on a Board divided into 64 Squares; where Art and Address are so indispensibly requisite, that Chance seems to have no place; and a Person never loses but by his own Fault. On each...

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

  • ASCITAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCITA

    a Bag or Bottle. The Ascitae were so called, because they introduced a kind of Bacchanals into their Assemblies, who danced around a Bag or Skin blown up; saying, they were those new Bottles filled with new Wine, whereof Jesus Christ makes mention,...

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