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  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    form, if laid in numbers, one by the side of another, in a level row, and their extreme ones sustained between two supporters; those in the middle will necessarily sink, even by their own gravity, much more if pressed down by any superincumbent weight....

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    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • SUPPORTERShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SUPPORTERS

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    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • SUPPORTEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SUPPORTED

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

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    Anatomy, Medicine, etc. See ANATOMY, MEDICINE, etc. Animals make the principal matter of Heraldry; both as Bearings and as Supporters, etc. See BEARING, SUPPORTER, etc. 'Tis an established Rule among the Heralds, that in Blazoning, animals are always to...

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

  • ARMORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMOR

    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, MANTLING, SUPPORTER, MOTTO, etc. Thus we say, a Gentleman of Coat-Armour; meaning one...

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

  • 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

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

    etc. for the Distinction of Persons, Families, and States. See FIGURE, COLOUR, SYMBOL, HONOUR, NOBILITY, etc. see also SUPPORTER. They are called Arms, in regard they are bore principally on the Buckler, Cuirasse, Banners, and other Apparatus of...

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

  • ATAMADULEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATAMADULET

    ATAMADULET, the first Minister in the Persian Empire. See MINISTER. The Atamadulet, or, as Tavernier writes it, Athematdoulet; and Sanfon, Etmadaulet, is much the same with the Grand Vizier in Turkey, excepting that he has not the Command of the Army,...

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

  • Heraldryhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry

    Difference, Quartering, & c . Composed of Colour, Metals, Points, &c. Bore on Escutcheon, Shield, &c. Accompanied with Supporters, Helmet, Cresl, Mantling, Motto, &c. Device, Emblem, Rebus, Enigma, &c. And described by Blazon.

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  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    Difference, Quartering, & c . Composed of Colour, Metals, Points, &c. Bore on Escutcheon, Shield, &c. Accompanied with Supporters, Helmet, Cresl, Mantling, Motto, &c. Device, Emblem, Rebus, Enigma, &c. And described by Blazon. 47 POETRY, including the...

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

  • ASSASSINhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSASSIN

    In 1213, they assassinated Conrad of Montferrat. They were Muslims, but paid some tribute to the Knights Templars.—The supporters of the Assassins were condemned by the Council of Lyons, and under Pope Innocent IV in 1256.—The Mongols overcame them, and...

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

  • ACCOMPANYMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOMPANYMENT

    the Accompaniments are all such things as are applied about the Shield, by way of Ornament; as the Belt, Mantling, Supporters, etc. See ESCUTCHEON, SHIELD. A thing is also said to be accompanied, accompagné, when there are several Bearings or Figures...

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

  • ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS

    ANABAPTISTS, a Religious Sect, whose distinguishing Tenet is, That Children are not to be baptized, till they arrive at Years of Discretion; as holding it requisite, that they give a Reason of their Faith, before they can receive a regular Baptism. See...

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    ARCHITECTONIC, that which builds a thing up regularly, according to the nature and intentions thereof. Thus, that plastic power, spirit, or whatever else it bewhich hatches the ova of females into living creaturesof the same species, is by some called...

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

  • AQUEDUCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AQUEDUCT

    AQUEDUCT, Aquaeductus, q.d. Ductus Aquae, a Conduit of Water; is a Construction of Stone, or Timber, made on an uneven Ground, to preserve the Level of the Water, and convey it, by a Canal, from one place to another. See WATER. There are Aqueducts under...

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

  • ATLAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLAS

    ATLAS, in Anatomy the Name of the first Vertebra of the Neck, which supports the Head. See VERTEBRA and NECK. It is so called in allusion to the celebrated Mountain Atlas in Africa, which is so high, that it seems to bear the Heavens; and to the Fable,...

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

  • AIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AID

    AID, or Aide, Auxilium, literally denotes the Help, Succor, or Assistance, which any Person lends another when too weak to do, or avoid something. See ASSISTANT. The Word is French, formed, according to M. Menage, from the Italian Aiutare; and that from...

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

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

    AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...

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

  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    AXIS properly signifies a line or long piece of iron or wood passing through the centre of a sphere, which is moveable upon the same. See SPHERE. In this sense we say the axis of a sphere, or globe; the axis, or axle-tree of a wheel, etc. See GLOBE,...

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

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

    ASTRONOMY, Astronomia, the Doctrine of the Heavens, and the Phenomena thereof. See HEAVEN. Astronomy is properly a mixed mathematical Science, whereby we become acquainted with the Celestial Bodies, their Magnitudes, Motions, Distances, Periods,...

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