Cyclopædia
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ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS
of some noble act. See CHARGE. Speaking, or Vocal Arms, are those wherein the figures bear an allusion to the name of the family—Such are those of the family of La Tour in Auvergne, who bear a tower; that of the family of Prado in Spain, whose field is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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FAMILY of Curveshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/FAMILY-of-Curves
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ADOPTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOPTION
Adoptio, an act by which anyone takes another into his family, owns him for his son, and appoints him his heir. See FAMILY, SON, &c. The word is derived from adoptare; whence came adoubare, to make a Knight: whence also Miles adoubatus, a Knight newly...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANNULEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNULET
a.g. d. little Ring; in Heraldry, is a Difference or Mark of Distinction, which the fifth Brother of any Family ought to bear in his Coat of Arms. See DIFFERENCE. Annulets are also part of the Coat-Armour of several Families: They were anciently reputed...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AFFINITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFINITY
AFFINITY, Affinitas, an Alliance, or Relation made between two Families, by Marriage. See ALLIANCE, and MARRIAGE. In this Sense, the Word stands contradistinguished to Consanguinity; which is a Relation by Blood. See CONSANGUINITY. In the Mosaical Law,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APOTHEOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/APOTHEOSIS
APOTHEOSIS, in Antiquity, a Heathen Ceremony, whereby their Emperors and great Men were placed among the Gods. See GOD. After the Apotheosis, which they also called Deification and Consecration; Temples and Altars were erected to the new Deity, and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ARABhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARAB
ARAB, Arabian, Arabesque, something that belongs to the People of Arabia. See ARABIA. The Arabian Horse is said to be nursed with Camel’s Milk: There are many strange Reports of this Beast. The Duke of Newcastle assures us, that the ordinary Price of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALLIANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLIANCE
ALLIANCE, the Union or Connection of two Persons, or two Families, by means of Marriage; called also Affinity. See MARRIAGE, and AFFINITY. The Law of the Twelve Tables forbids all Alliance between Persons of unequal Rank and Condition. —And in Portugal,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AGGREGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AGGREGATION
AGGREGATION, Accretion, in Physics, a species of union, whereby several things which have no natural dependence or connection with one another, are collected together, so as in some sense to constitute one. See UNION. Thus, a heap of sand, or a mass of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ARRIERE-FEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARRIERE-FEE
ARRIERE-FEE, or Fee, is a fee dependent on some other superior one. See FEE. These commenced at the time when the counts and dukes, rendering their governments hereditary in their families, distributed to their officers certain parts of the royal...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
from the first simple Ideas that gave rise to it, to its last, and utmost Composition. This is like giving the Root of the Family; which is certainly necessary to its Genealogy — Yet we have not always kept to this Method. In some Words, there is a deal...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK
that the lowest Story was destined for the Beasts, the middle for the Food, and the upper for the Birds, with Noah and his Family; each Story being subdivided into different Apartments, Stalls, etc.—Though Josephus, Philo, and other Commentators, add a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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ANAGRAMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGRAM
the Anagram of Galenus is Augelus; that of Logica, Caligo; that of Loraine, is Alerion; on which account it was, that the Family of Lorrain took Alerions for their Armoury. Calvin, in the Title of his Institutions, printed at Strasburg in 1539, calls...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARCHBISHOPRIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHBISHOPRIC
which he was of Rochester; to make knights, coin monies, etc. He is still the first peer of England, and next to the Royal Family; having precedence of all dukes, and all great officers of the crown. See NOBILITY, PEER, PRECEDENCE, etc. He has, by...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARMORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMOR
Officers, and those of the Cavalry, were obliged to resume the Cuirass.—Coat-Armour, is the Escutcheon of any Person, or Family, with its several Charges, and other Furniture, as Mantling, Crest, Supporters, Motto, etc. See ESCUTCHEON, CHARGES, CREST,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASSASSINhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSASSIN
Word Assassin is said, by some, to have been brought from the Levant, where it took its Rise from a certainPrince of the Family of the Arsacides, popularly called Assassins, living in a Castle between Antioch and Damascus,and bringing up a number of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ADVOWSONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVOWSON
Licence of Election, was first to be obtained of the Patron, and the Person elected was confirmed by him. If the Founder’s Family was extinct, the Patronage of the Convent went to the Lord of the Manor. ADVOWSON
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION
then, between Agnation and Cognation consists in this: that Cognation is the universal name under which the whole family, and even the Agnates themselves are contained; and Agnation a particular branch of Cognation, which only includes the descendants...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ABDICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ABDICATION
It disser 'd from Exheredation, Disinheriting, in this Circumstance, that the abdicated Son was banisti'd his Father's Family, and cut off from the Succession by a solemn Act, during the Father's Life: whereas Exheredation only took place in virtue of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Politics - Policy - Justice
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ATCHIEVEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ATCHIEVEMENT
in Heraldry, the Coat of Arms of any Person or Family; duly marshalled with its external ornaments, as Supporters, Helmet, Wreath, Crest, and Motto. See COAT and ARMS. See also SUPPORTER, HELMET, etc. Such are usually hung out on the Fronts of Houses...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Heraldry