Cyclopædia
Assuming day is required, the following 112 results were found.
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ANNIVERSARY Dayshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIVERSARY%20Days
Days, Dies Anniversarii, among our Ancestors were those Days wherein the Martyrdoms of the Saints were yearly celebrated in the Church; as also Days whereon, at every Year’s end, Men were wont to pray for the Souls of their deceased Friends....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTHESTERIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ANTHESTERIA
Flos, a Flower; it being the Custom at this Feast to offer Garlands of Flowers to Bacchus. The Anthesphoria lasted three Days, the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth of the Month; each of which Days had a Name suited to the proper Office of the Day. The...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE
of the Comites, or Counts, and rendered Justice in their Place; held two Kinds of Courts, the one ordinary, held every Day, and called Placitum; the other extraordinary, called Assize, or Placitum Generale; at which the Count himself assisted for the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE
to be acquitted at their first presenting; or, in default of payment, to be protested. In bills drawn for a certain number of days after sight, the acceptance must be dated; in regard the time is to be accounted therefrom. The form of this acceptance is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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DAYShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DAYS
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FERIAL Dayshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/FERIAL-Days
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CRITICAL Dayshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CRITICAL-Days
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ENNEATICAL Dayshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ENNEATICAL-Days
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK
thereof, in lieu of Deal; and the common Tradition throughout the East, imports, that the Ark is preserved entire to this Day on Mount Ararat. The Dimensions of the Ark, as delivered by Moses, are 300 Cubits in Length, 50 in Breadth, and 30 in Height;...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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APATURIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/APATURIA
to the Frontiers of their Countries. Hence Budaeus calls it Festum Deceptionis, the Feast of Deceit. This Feast lasted four days: The first Day, those of the same Tribe made merry together; and this they called Abeaes. The second Day, which they called...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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YEAR's Dayhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/YEAR's-Day
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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NATURAL Dayhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/NATURAL-Day
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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YEAR and Dayhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/YEAR-and-Day
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTOECIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTOECI
of Good Hope—Antoeci are frequently confounded with Antisci. See ANTISCI. The Antoeci have precisely the same Hours of the Day and Night; but opposite Seasons: when it's 12 o'Clock in the longest Summer Day with one; it's 12 o'Clock of the shortest...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION
etc. See FINGER, etc. By such a multitude of rules and observances, it is no wonder some of the orators of those, as of our days, were perverted more than profited.—Rules only tend to perfect the action, which must have its origin from another source,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ANNIVERSARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNIVERSARY
is properly the yearly return of any remarkable day and was anciently called a Year-day or Mind-day, that is, a Memorial-day. See ANNUAL DAY, etc. On some extraordinary occasions, such days have been registered and annually observed in gratitude to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES
See PARALLEL and MERIDIAN. The Antipodes have the same degree of Heat and Cold as well as the same length of Night, and Day; but at contrary times. It being Midnight with one when it is Noon with the other; and the longest Day with one, when shortest...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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AGNOETEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGNOETES
or Agnoites, a denomination given to certain ancient heretics, who denied that Christ foreknew the Day of Judgment. The word is Greek, "Agnoetai," formed from "agnoeo," meaning, "I do not know." Eutychius, Patriarch of Alexandria, ascribes this heresy...
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
it immediately kindles. So an ounce of charcoal, enclosed in a crucible well luted, will remain without loss for fourteen days in the intensest heat of a melting furnace; though the thousandth part of the fire in open air will presently turn it into...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE
from their Wives at certain Seasons.---— The same is enjoin'd in the Apostolical Constitutions, on all fast and meagre Days ; and the Church of England recommends certain Days of Fasting and Abstinence.---— The Great Fast, says St. Augustin, is to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology