Cyclopædia
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AMPHITHEATREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMPHITHEATRE
AMPHITHEATRE, a spacious Building, either round or oval, having its Area or Arena encompassed with Rows of Seats, rising gradually one over another; with Porticoes both within and outside. See ARENA and ARENA. Among the Ancients, the Amphitheatre was...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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Architecturehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture
ARCHITECTURE, including die Construction of BUILDINGS ; as House, Temple, Church, Hall, Palace, Theatre, &c. Ship, Galley, Galleon, Ark, Buccentaur, Boat, &c. Pyramid, Mausoleum, Pantheon, &c. Capitol, Seraglio, Escurial, &c. Arch, Vault, Bridge,...
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Diving, Plying, &c. 26 ARCHITECTURE, including die Construction of BUILDINGS ; as House, Temple, Church, Hall, Palace, Theatre, &c. Ship, Galley, Galleon, Ark, Buccentaur, Boat, &c. Pyramid, Mausoleum, Pantheon, &c. Capitol, Seraglio, Escurial, &c....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ACTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ACTOR
ACTOR, in Dramatic Poetry, one who represents some Person or Character upon the Theatre. See PERSON, and CHARACTER. Tragedy, in its original, only consisted of a simple Chorus, who sang Hymns in honor of Bacchus. See TRAGEDY, and CHORUS. Thespis was...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Poetry
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ARCHIMIMEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHIMIME
the manners, gestures, and speech both of theliving and the dead. See MIME. At first they were only employed on the theatre; but wereafterwards admitted to their feasts, and at last to their funerals; where they walked after the corps, counterfeitingthe...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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APPOSITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPOSITION
and without any copular Conjunction between them. See SUBSTANTIVE, CONJUNCTION, COPULATIVE, etc. Thus, Flanders, bloody theatre, horrible scene of war. APPOSITION
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC
Vincenzo Scamozzi, his Idea of Universal Architecture, published in 1615, in Italian, and Charles Philippe Dieufart, in his Theatre of Civil Architecture, published in High-Dutch in 1697; wherein he not only delivers the rules of architecture. but...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified