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  • AUTUMNhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTUMN

    autumnus, the third season of the year; being that wherein the harvest, and the fruits of the summer are gathered. See SEASON, YEAR, etc. Autumn begins on the day when the sun’s meridian distance from the zenith, being on the decrease, is a mean between...

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

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    Word is compounded of the Latin abs, from ; and teneo, I hold. The Jews were oblig'd to abstain 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...

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

  • ANTOECIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTOECI

    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 Winter's Day with the other; and hence...

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    of Phenomena explained from the Contemplation of the Stars.—Accordingly, he endeavors to account for the Diversity of Seasons, from the different Situations and Habitudes of the Planets, from their Retrograde Motions; the Number of fixed Stars in the...

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    was a Barbarian who first observed the heavenly Motions; to which he was led by the clearness of the Weather in the Summer Season, as in Egypt and Syria, where the Stars are constantly seen, there being no Rain or Clouds to interrupt the Prospect. And...

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

  • ADVENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ADVENT

    reputed the first; and the numeration carried backward. Great austerity was practiced in the ancient Church during this season. At first, they fasted three days a week; but were afterward obliged to fast every day; whence the season is frequently called...

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

  • ACETABULUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ACETABULUM

    ACETABULUM, in antiquity, a little vase or cup used at table to serve up things proper for sauce or seasoning, much after the manner of our salts and vinegar cruets. See VASE, and VESSEL. Hence, Agricola, in his treatise of Roman measures, L. I., takes...

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

  • ANCHOVYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce/ANCHOVY

    in Matters of Commerce, &c., a little Sea Fish, much used by way of Sauce, or Seasoning. Scaliger describes it as of the Herring-kind, about the Length of a Finger, having a pointed Snout, a wide Mouth, no Teeth, but Gums as rough as a Saw. Others make...

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

  • ACETARIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACETARIA

    ACETARIA, a Salad. See SALAD. The word is formed from Acetum, vinegar; because that fluid is commonly used for the seasoning of it. ACETARIA

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

  • AROMATIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AROMATIC

    formed of the Greek ἀρωμα, from ἀράω, to make fit, accommodate; in regard Spices, which are all aromatic, are used for the seasoning and preparing of meats. Aromatics, or aromatic medicines, are either simple or compound.—To this class belong most...

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

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

    Object usually suffices to set it agoing. And the Gentlemen of that Faculty have all Nature to choose out of: The finest Seasons, the most agreeable Scenes, and the most moving Objects. Hence it is, that they are continually harping on "Groves, and...

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

  • ANTIDILUVIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIDILUVIAN

    the Plane of the Ecliptic; consequently, that there were then the same Succession of Weather, and the same Vicissitudes of Seasons, as now. See TERRAQUEOUS, MOUNTAIN, etc. See also FOSSIL, etc. ANTIDILUVIAN

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

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    had been corrected by the aromatick Effluvia of those spicy Blossoms. The Air is also liable to Alterations from the Season of the Year—Thus, few subterraneous Effluvia are emitted in the Winter; by reason the Pores are locked up by the Frost, or...

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

  • ARÆOMETERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARÆOMETER

    when different liquors fill it, which weighs most, or is most intensely heavy. Some regard, however, is to be had to the season of the year, and degree of heat and cold in the weather: by reason some liquors rarefy with heat, and condense with cold,...

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

  • ANNUNCIATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUNCIATION

    Honour of the Virgin is of a much later standing. Several of the Eastern Churches celebrate the Annunciation at a different Season from those of the West. The Syrians call it Bashara, q.d. Search, Inquiry; and mark it in their Calendar for the first Day...

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

  • Vice-ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/Vice-ADMIRAL

    that which arrives there first, taking the title and quality of Admiral, which it retains during the whole fishing season. See FISHERY. Admiral's Court, or the High Court of Admiralty, is a court held by the High Admiral; to which belongs the decision...

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

  • ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS

    same Vaults and Cellars, becomes the Sanctuary of Heat; and Water, fresh drawn out of deeper Wells and Springs, in a cold Season, not only feels warm, but manifestly smokes."Mr. Boyle has canvassed this Doctrine thoroughly, in his History of Cold. "It...

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

  • ABLACTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening/ABLACTATION

    off. Hence, 'tis chiefly used on Plants that grow in Cases ; as Orange, Lemon, Pomgranate, Vines, Jessamins, &c. The Season is April. To perform it, the usual Method is to take the Branch intended for rhe Graft, and pare it away, both the Rind and Wood,...

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

  • AUTUMNAL SIGNShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTUMNAL%20SIGNS

    SIGNS are those through which the sun passes during the season of autumn. See SIGN. The autumnal signs are Libra, Scorpius, and Sagittarius. AUTUMNAL SIGNS

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