Cyclopædia
Assuming war is required, the following 32 results were found.
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CAPTAIN of a Man of Warhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CAPTAIN-of-a-Man-of-War
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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HABILLIMENTS of Warhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/HABILLIMENTS-of-War
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY
visible Quality, but endued with its specific Power. The Sun, we know, not only shines on all the Planets, but by his genial Warmth calls forth, excites, and raises the Motions, Properties, etc. peculiar to them; and his Rays must share or receive...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARTILLERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTILLERY
heavy Equipage of War; comprehending all sorts of great Fire-arms with their Appurtenances, as Cannons, Mortars, Bombs, Petards, Muscats, Carbines, &c. See CANNON, MORTAR, GUN, PETARD, &c. In this Sense, the Word Artillery coincides with what we...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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EAR-Warhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/EAR-War
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASSUMPTIVE Armshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ASSUMPTIVE%20Arms
ARMS. As, if a Man who is no Gentleman of Blood, nor Coat Armour, takes a Gentleman, Lord, or Prince, Prisoner in any lawful War; he becomes entitled to bear the Shield of such Prisoner, and enjoy it to him and his Heirs.—The Foundation hereof is that...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Heraldry
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ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS
against Beasts—That Nimrod, the first Tyrant, turned them against Men; and that his Son Cush was the first that waged War; whence, according to some, came the Appellation Bellum.—Diodorus Siculus takes Belus to be the same with Mars, who first trained...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANDROGYNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANDROGYNE
Sexes; but that this Duplicity of Members, giving them too much Strength and Vigour, they became insolent, and even declared War against the Gods.—Upon which, Jupiter, to tame their Pride, split each of them into two; but so as that each Moiety still...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASIENTOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASIENTO
stipulated before.—The two principal Articles regarded,first, the Number of Negroes to be provided, which was 4800 while the War should last, and 4800 in case of Peace. Secondly, The Duty to be paid the King of Spain, during the Farm, or Asiento; which...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AS
of Tullus Hostilius, it was Brass, and was called As, Libra, or Pound. —Four hundred and twenty Years after, the first Punic War having exhausted the Treasury, they retrenched a Sextans of two Ounces, and thenceforward only made it of the Weight of a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ADMINISTRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMINISTRATION
GOVERNMENT and JUSTICE. Indolent princes confide the administration of public affairs to their ministers. See MINISTER. Civil wars are usually raised on pretense of maladministration or of abuses committed in the exercise of justice. See WAR....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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Vice-ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/Vice-ADMIRAL
subordinate to him; for the exercising of jurisdiction in maritime affairs, within their respective limits.There are upwards of twenty Vice-Admirals. From their decisions and sentences, appeal lies to the Court of Admiralty in London.There are also...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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APPOSITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPOSITION
Conjunction between them. See SUBSTANTIVE, CONJUNCTION, COPULATIVE, etc. Thus, Flanders, bloody theatre, horrible scene of war. APPOSITION
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AGEMOGLANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGEMOGLANS
where they are first circumcised, then instructed in the Mahometan Faith, taught the Turkish Language, and the Exercises of War, till such time as they become of Age to bear Arms. Such as are not judged proper for the Army, they employ in the lowest and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALBIGENSEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ALBIGENSES
the Albigenses grew so formidable in a little time, that a Holy League or Crusade was agreed upon among the Catholics; and war denounced against them, the Pope himself raising the first standard. In 1229, a peace was struck up, and an Inquisition...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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ANTHOLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTHOLOGY
the Name to an Order of Knighthood, established in 1382 by Albert of Bavaria, etc., who had then taken a Resolution to make War against the Turks. See ORDER and KNIGHT. The Knights of this Order wore a Collar of Gold, with a Hermit’s Girdle, to which...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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Politics - Policy - Justicehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics
Stadtholder, Protector, &c. Their Succession, Elective, Hereditary, by Primogeniture, &c. Their Transactions, as Peace, War, Treaty, Union, League, Croisade, &c. By Armies, Fleets, Embassies. Secretary, Plenipotentiary, Envoy, Legate, Nuntio, &c. Their...
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AGITATORShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/AGITATORS
of the interests thereof.Cromwell leagued himself with the Agitators, Whom he found to have more interest than the Council of War. The Agitators undertook to make proposals relating to the Reformation of Religion and the State. AGITATORS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Politics - Policy - Justice
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ADALIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ADALIDES
of King Alphonso, the Adalides are spoken of as officers appointed to guide and direct the marching of the forces in time of war. Lopes represents them as a sort of judges who take cognizance of the differences arising upon excursions, the distribution...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Politics - Policy - Justice
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ARMAMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMAMENT
a large Body of Forces, raised and provided with the Furniture of War, either for Land or Sea Service. See ARMY. ARMAMENT
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified