Cyclopædia
Assuming plays is required, the following 8 results were found.
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PLAYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PLAY
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
'TIS not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT
to this day; though it seems to draw its force from the authority of Horace, rather than that of Reason or Nature. All plays are held irregular that have either more or fewer. See FARCE. Some indeed have asserted that every just action consists of five...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ASIDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASIDE
they are never to be used but at a Pinch, which a good Author will scarcely suffer himself to be brought to. See PLAYS, TRAGEDY, Comedy; see also SOLILOQUY.
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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Gamehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game
Play, Ludus, a regular Diversion or a Sport prescribed, and limited by Rules. See GAMING.
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ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY
ALKALY, Alkali, or Alkathy, in Chemistry, a Name originally given, by the Arabians, to a Salt extracted from the Ashes of a Plant called Kali; and by us Glass-wort because used in the making of Glass. See KALI, and GRASS. Afterwards, the Term Alkaly...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chymistry
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ALLUSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLUSION
ALLUSION, Allusio, in Rhetoric, a Figure whereby something is applied to, or understood of, another, by reason of some Similitude of Name, or Sound. Camden defines Allusion as a dalliance, or playing with Words like in Sound, but unlike in Sense; by...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Rhetoric
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ARGUMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ARGUMENT
ARGUMENT, Argumentum, in Philosophy, as defined by Cicero, is some probable Matter alleged to gain Belief. See PROBABILITY, BELIEF, etc. Others, somewhat more scientifically, define Argument, a Medium, from whose Connection with two Extremes, the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy