Cyclopædia
Assuming walk is required, the following 16 results were found.
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ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION
should make more use of his trunk than of his hand; Trunco magis toto se ipse moderans, & virili laterum flexione. Brut. Walking, accessus, is sometimes recommended as highly deserving to be cultivated; but Cicero will scarce allow it to be used at all,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ALLEYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening/ALLEY
in Gardening, a straight parallel Walk, bordered or bounded on each hand with Trees, Shrubs, or the like. See GARDEN, WALK, ESPALIER, etc. Alleys are usually laid either with Grass or Gravel. See GRASS-WALK, and GRAVEL-WALK. An Alley is distinguished...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Gardening
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ARISTOTELIANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTOTELIAN
upon which he chose the Lyceum for the future Scene of his Disputations. See LYCEUM. It being his Practice to philosophize Walking, he got the Appellation Peripateticus; whence his Followers were also called Peripatetics—Though others will have him to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AVENUEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/fortification/AVENUE
etc. The Word is form’d of the French Avenir, or Advenir, to come to, to arrive at. See ADVENT. AVENUE, in Gardening, is a Walk, planted on each side with Trees, and leading to some Place. See VISTA. See also GROVE, GLADE. All Avenues, Mortimer says,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Fortification
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
take Airs in a more extensive Sense; and divide 'em into low, and high. The low Airs include the Natural Paces, as Trotting, Walking, Galloping, and Terra-a-Terra. See PACE, TROT, GALLOP, &c.The high, or raised Airs, are all such Motions as rise higher...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION
Animals, and for that Reason left out or the Abstract Idea. Upon the same Account, the spontaneous Motion must be neither walking, nor flying, nor creeping ; it is nevertheless a Motion — But what that Motion is, it is not easy to conceive. « I will not...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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ARCH-CHAMBERLAINhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH-CHAMBERLAIN
of the empire, being so appointed by the Golden Bull; and in that quality, he bears the scepter before the emperor, walking on the left hand of the Elector of Saxony. At some solemnities, he serves on horseback like other electors; carrying a basin with...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ADAMITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADAMITES
the Laws of Nature, which, according to him, consisted in two things, viz. Community of Women and Nakedness. These last walked naked in the public places; whereas the former only took off their clothes in their assemblies. There are mentions of Adamites...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ARCHIMIMEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHIMIME
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 gestures and behavior of the person who was carrying to the funeral pile, as if he were...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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Gardeninghttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/gardening
Ordering of a Hot-bell Green-house, Seminary. Nursery, Garden, Vineyard &c. Their Exposure, Walls, Horizontal Shelter, &c. Walks, Grass-Plot, Terrace, Quincunx, Parterre &c.
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Ordering of a Hot-bell Green-house, Seminary. Nursery, Garden, Vineyard &c. Their Exposure, Walls, Horizontal Shelter, &c. Walks, Grass-Plot, Terrace, Quincunx, Parterre &c. 43 MANAGE, including the Consideration of HORSES; their Age Colour, Teeth,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ANDROIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANDROIDES
an Automaton, in the figure of a Man; which by virtue of certain Springs, &c., duly contrived, Walks, Speaks, &c. See AUTOMATON. Albertus Magnus, is recorded as having made an Androides.—The Word is compounded of the Greek ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός, Man, and εἶδος,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AMBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/manage/AMBLE
to trot, they quit—There is no such thing as an Amble, in the Manage; the Riding-Masters allowing of no other Paces, beside Walk, Trot, and Gallop: Their Reason is, That a Horse may be put from a Trot to a Gallop, without stopping him; but not from an...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Manage
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ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS
Children. The same St. Luke writes that they were brought to Jesus, which is a Presumption that they were not yet able to walk. Another Argument much insisted on is drawn from these Words of St. Paul to the Romans, C.V. "If by one Man's Offence Death...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AMBULATORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBULATORY
so were the Courts of King’s Bench, &c. See PARLIAMENT, KING’S-BENCH, &c. The Word is formed of the Latin ambulare, to walk. We sometimes also say, in a Moral Sense, a Man’s Will is Ambulatory, to the Time of his Death; meaning, that he has it always in...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARVALES FRATREShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARVALES%20FRATRES
Acca Laurentia, Romulus’s Nurse, was the first Founder of this Order of Priests: She, it seems, had twelve Sons, who used to walk before her in the Sacrifice; one of whom dying, Romulus, in favor of his Nurse, promised to take his Place; and hence, says...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified