Cyclopædia
Assuming liberal is required, the following 7 results were found.
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ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART
to which belong the Mechanical Arts and Manufactures. See each in its Place. Arts are more popularly divided into Liberal and Mechanical. The liberal arts are those that are noble, and ingenuous; of which are worthy of being cultivated without any...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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LIBERAL ARTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/LIBERAL-ARTS
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ALMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMS
Eleemosynaria, something given out of Charity or Liberality, to the Poor. See CHARITY, ALMONER, &c. The Romanists also extend the Term to what is given to the Church, or other pious Uses.—Hence, what the Church holds on this footing, is called Tenure in...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ADVENTITIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVENTITIOUS
APPUNCTION, etc. Adventitious, in Civil Law, is applied to such goods as fall to a man, either by mere fortune, or by the liberality of a stranger, or by collateral succession. See GOODS. The word is used in opposition to Profectedious; by which are...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACADEMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMY
ACADEMY, is also used among us for a kind of Collegiate School, or Seminary; where Youth are instructed in the Liberal Arts, and Sciences; in a private way. See SCHOOL, SEMINARY, COLLEGE, etc. The Nonconformist Ministers, etc. are many of them bred up...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ATHENAEUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ATHENAEUM
in Antiquity, a public Place wherein the Professors of the liberal Arts held their Assemblies, the Rhetoricians declaimed, and the Poets rehearsed their Verses. The Athenea were built in form of Amphitheatres; and were also incompassed with Seats, which...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ADOPTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOPTIVE
ADOPTIVE, Adoptivus, or Adoptivius, a person adopted by another. See ADOPTION. The Emperor Hadrian preferred adoptive children to natural ones; by reason we choose the former, but are obliged to take the latter at random. Adoptive children, among the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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