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  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    and Sense in their general or natural State, as imparted to all Men; and not modified, or circumstantiated by any thing peculiar in the Make of a Man's Mind, the Objects he has been conversant among, or the Ideas he has present to him. Consequently,...

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

  • ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION

    we gather from our Self-consciousness what it is to Think ; and omitting the Consideration of those Things which have a peculiar Relation to our own Mind, or to the human Mind, we think of a thinking Being in general. Ideas fram'd thus, which are what...

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

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

    Ingredient of the Atmospherical Air, and that which gives it the Denomination. Nature and Production of AIR. The peculiar Nature of this aerial Matter, we know but little of; what Authors have advanced concerning it being chiefly conjectural. We have no...

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

  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    e.g., are merely Earthy; as Quick-lime, Marble, Sealed Earths, etc. Others are Metallic; among which, some have their peculiar and appropriate Acids to act on them, as Gold, Tin, and Antimony, which only dissolve with Aqua Regia; Silver, Lead, and...

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

  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    ACCENT, Accentus, a certain inflection of voice, or a peculiar tone and manner of pronunciation, contracted from the country or province where a person was bred. See VOICE and PRONUNCIATION. In this sense, we say the Welsh tone or accent, the Northern...

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

  • ATTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTIC

    the city Athens. In matters of philology, we use Attic salt, Sales Attici, for a delicate, poignant kind of wit and humor; peculiar to the Athenian writers: Attic witness, Atticus testis, was a witness incapable of corruption: So an Attic muse was an...

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

  • AMBERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMBER

    an acid Spirit, which precipitates into a Salt; is inferred, by some, to be of a mineral Nature; this being a Circumstance peculiar to that Kingdom, and never found in the Distillation of Vegetables: To which may be added, that Amber dissolves in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ARCHBISHOPRIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHBISHOPRIC

    etc. He also holds several courts of judicature; as, Court of Arches, Court of Audience, Prerogative Court, and Court of Peculiars. See ARCHES, AUDIENCE, etc. The Archbishop of York has the like rights in his province, as the Archbishop of Canterbury;...

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    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 somewhat of the Tincture thereof; and thus tinged be again reflected into the...

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

  • ALLANTOIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ALLANTOIS

    be found in Man—M. Drelincourt, Professor of Anatomy at Leiden, in an express Dissertation on this Membrane, maintains it peculiar to the Ruminating Kind. See RUMINANT.Dr. Hale, on the contrary, has given an accurate Description of the human Allantois;...

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

  • AEOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEOLIPILE

    Fire.—The mechanical Philosophers, on the other hand, hold that the Vapor, at its Exit from the Ball, is endowed with that peculiar Species of circular Motion, which constitutes the Quality Heat; and that the further it recedes therefrom, the more is...

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

  • ANGLICISMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLICISM

    a Diction in the English Idiom; or a Manner of Speech peculiar to the English Tongue. See IDIOM and ENGLISH. ANGLICISM

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

  • AMPHIBIOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/AMPHIBIOUS

    chief Food. See ANIMAL. Such are the Frog, Castor, Otter, Tortoise, Sea-Calf, Crocodile, etc. The Amphibious Kind have peculiar Provisions in their Structure, to fit 'em for so various a way of Living; particularly in the Heart, Lungs, Foramen Ovale,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ALTERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ALTERATION

    Emission, Accession, Union, Separation, or Transposition of the component Particles. See PARTICLE, etc. Aristotle makes a peculiar kind of Motion, which he calls the Motion of Alteration. See MOTION, etc. ALTERATION

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

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

    they divided into a great number of Sects; which took particular Denominations, either from the Leaders thereof, or the peculiar Opinions, which they superadded to the general System of Anabaptism. The principal were the Muncerians, Catharists,...

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

  • ANIMA MUNDIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMA%20MUNDI

    Bodies, and intimately mixing with all the minute Atoms thereof, assumes somewhat of their Nature; and becomes of a peculiar Kind. So the Poet:"Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus Mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet."They add, that...

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

  • AMBER-GREASEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMBER-GREASE

    with the Persians, suppose the fish that yields the Ambergrease, a Sea-Calf; others, with the Africans, a peculiar species of fish, named Ambracanz; others a crocodile, by reason its flesh is perfumed, etc. But, to both these hypotheses it is objected,...

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

  • ANIMAL ACTIONShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL%20ACTIONS

    ACTIONS are those peculiar to Animals; or which belong to Animals, as such. See ANIMA and ACTION. Such are Sensation and Muscular Motion. See SENSATION, MOTION. ANIMAL ACTIONS

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

  • ALNAGERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALNAGER

    Measuring and Searching, till by his own neglect it was thought proper to separate the two Offices. So that there is now a peculiar Measurer, distinct from the Alnager, or Collector, to allow the Assize of the Length and Breadth of every Cloth made in...

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

  • AMBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/manage/AMBLE

    Ambling, in Horsemanship, a peculiar kind of Pace, wherein a Horse’s two Legs of the same Side, move at the same time. See PACE. The ambling Horse changes Sides at each remove; two Legs of a side being in the Air, and two, on the ground, at the same...

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