Cyclopædia
Assuming acceptation is required, the following 6 results were found.
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ACCEPThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCEPT
ACCEPT. See ACCEPTANCE, and ACCEPTATION. ACCEPT
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ACCEPTANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ACCEPTANCE
to receive a less sum than is expressed, in part, he is to stand the chance of the rest. See PROTEST, ENDORSEMENT, etc. Acceptation, or Acception, in Grammar, the signification of a word; or the sense wherein it is taken and received. See WORD, etc....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ACCEPTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCEPTION
ACCEPTION, or Acceptation. See ACCEPTATION. ACCEPTION
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ARMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARM
the Elbow; the rest, from the Elbow to the Wrist, being taken into the greater Hand. See HAND. The Arm, in this latter Acceptation, has only one large Bone, called the Humerus, or Shoulder-Bone. See HUMERUS. It has five sorts of Motions, which are...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY
of the Name, Astrology should signify no more than the Doctrine or Science of the Stars; which we read was its original Acceptation, and made the ancient Astrology; though, in Course of Time, an Alteration has arisen; that which the Ancients called...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ABSOLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABSOLUTION
ABSOLUTION, ABSOLUTIO, in the Civil Law, &c. a definitive Sentence, whereby a Person accused of any Crime, &c. is acquitted, and declared Innocent. Among the Romans, the ordinary Method of pronouncing Judgment was this : After the Cause had been pleaded...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law