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  • AUTHORITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHORITY

    AUCTORITAS, a right to command, and make oneself obeyed. See POWER. In this sense we say the supreme or sovereign authority; absolute or despotic authority; the royal authority; the episcopal authority, the authority of the church; of a father, etc. See...

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

  • AVELLANEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/AVELLANE

    a Filberd in Latin being Nux Avellana.—Syl. Morgan says, it is this Cross which Ensigns the Mound of Authority, or the Sovereign’s Globe. AVELLANE

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

  • ATARAXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATARAXY

    from self-opinion, and the knowledge we imagine ourselves possessed of. See STOICS. In this Ataraxia, they supposed the sovereign good to consist. See GOOD. The word is purely Greek, compounded of ἀ-, a privative prefix, and τάραξις, disorder; hence,...

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

  • APPANAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPANAGE

    King’s younger Son: or a settled Portion of Lands, etc., assigned for the Subsistence of the Cadets, or younger Sons of a Sovereign Prince. See KING, etc. The younger Sons of England have no certain appanages, as in France; but only what the...

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

  • AURUM POTABILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURUM%20POTABILE

    mix’d with sixteen ounces of another liquor is call’d aurum potabile, because of its gold-colour; and is said to be a sovereign remedy against several diseases. See POTABLE GOLD. A modern physician has asserted that gold is a resin drawn from the earth;...

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

  • ALLEGIANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLEGIANCE

    Ligamen fidei. See LIGAMEN.Oath of Allegiance, is an Oath given in England to the King, in quality of a Temporal Prince or Sovereign; to distinguish it from the Oath given to him as Primate, or supreme Head of the Church, which is called the Oath of...

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

  • ALLIANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLIANCE

    Latin ad ligatio, q. d. a tying together. Alliance is also extended to the Leagues, or Treaties of Peace concluded between sovereign Princes and States, for their mutual Safety and Defence. See TREATY, LEAGUE, etc. The Triple Alliance between England,...

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

  • ADVOCATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADVOCATE

    interest in all public meetings; to prosecute all capital crimes before the Judiciary; and concur in all pursuits before sovereign courts for breaches of the peace; and also in all matters wherein the King, or his Donator, has interest. He intends no...

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

  • AMETHYSThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/AMETHYST

    Colour, in the Coat of a Nobleman; which in Gentlemen's Escutcheons below that degree, is called Purpure; and in those of sovereign Princes, Mercury. See PURPURE, and PURPURE. AMETHYST

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

  • ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT

    and having, withal, a full Episcopal Authority within their several Precincts. Among us, these were also call'd Abbots sovereign, and Abbots general ; and were Lords of Parliament. Of these Sir Edward Coke, de Jur. Eccles. reckons 27 in England, beside...

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

  • AMNESTYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMNESTY

    to make any farther Inquiry into the same. See PARDON. Such Amnesties are usually practiced upon Reconciliations of the Sovereign towards his People, after Rebellions, general Defections, &c. Such, e.g. was the Act of Oblivion granted at King Charles's...

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

  • ACCOUNThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOUNT

    who ought to render an account, refuses to give his account. See STEWARD. Chamber of Accounts, in the French polity, is a sovereign court of great antiquity, wherein the accounts relating to the King's revenue are delivered in and registered. See...

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

  • ARGENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ARGENT

    of gentlemen, knights, and baronets. See COLOR and WHITE. Barons and all nobles have the white color called Pearl; and sovereign princes have theirs called Luna. Without either this or Or, the heralds say there can be no good armory. See OR. Argent is...

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

  • ALCAIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCAID

    the Governor of a City in Barbary. See ALCAIDE.The Jurisdiction of the Alcaid is sovereign, both in Civil and Criminal Concerns; and Fines and Punishments lie wholly at his Door. The Word is formed of the Particle Al, and the Verb kad, or akad, to...

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

  • AZUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AZURE

    all persons under the degree of a baron. See COLOR. In the escutcheons of noblemen, blue is called Saphir; and in those of sovereign princes, Jupiter. In engraving, it is represented by strokes or hatches drawn horizontally, as in the annexed figure....

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

  • ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS

    in Heraldry, for Marks of Dignity and Honour, regularly composed of certain Figures and Colours, given or authorized by Sovereign, and bore in Banners, Shields, Coats, etc. for the Distinction of Persons, Families, and States. See FIGURE, COLOUR,...

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

  • ALOEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALOES

    Indians than Gold itself. It affords a very strong, but agreeable smell; and is used as a Perfume, and is withal held a sovereign Remedy against the Palsy, Deliquiums, Weaknesses, &c. 'Tis the Calambou alone that is known among us. It is brought in...

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