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  • APHORISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APHORISM

    a Maxim, general Rule, or Principle of a Science; or a brief Sentence, comprehending a great deal of Matter in a few Words. See MAXIM, etc. The Term is chiefly used in Medicine and Law. Thus we say the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, of Sanctorius, of...

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

  • AXIOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIOM

    q.d. dignitas, auctoritas, or even effatum: whence Cicero in lieu thereof uses the word pronuntiatum. By axioms, called also maxims, are understood all common notions of the mind, whose evidence is so clear and forcible, that a man cannot deny them...

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

  • ASSENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSENT

    for truth, from which we can forbear our assent without some secret reproach of our own reason. See INTEGRITY, METHOD, MAXIM, etc. ASSENT

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

  • ALLODIUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLODIUM

    over the Allodial Lands, went so far, that they were almost all either subjected to them, or converted into Fees: Whence the Maxim, Nulla Terra sine Domino, No Land without a Lord. The Origin of the Word is infinitely controverted. Cassineneuve says, it...

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

  • ACCESSORYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCESSORY

    or outlawed thereon. Where the Principal is pardoned without Attainder, the Accessory cannot be arraigned; it being a Maxim in Law, Ubi non est principalis, non potest esse Accessorius. But if the Principal be pardoned, or have his Clergy after...

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

  • ABSURDITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ABSURDITY

    Absurdities, is a kind of Error, or Offense against some evident, and generally allowed Truths or Principle. See ERROR, MAXIM, &c. The greatest of all Absurdities is the Contradiction. See CONTRADICTION. The Schoolmen make two Species of Absurdities —...

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

  • ABSOLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABSOLUTION

    ad Cautelam, is that granted to a Person who has lodg'd an Appeal against a Sentence of Excommunication. It being a Maxim in the Papal Jurisprudence, that the Sentence stands good notwithstanding any Appeal ; this sort of Absolution is sometimes granted...

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