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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....

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

  • ACCEPTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCEPTION

    ACCEPTION, or Acceptation. See ACCEPTATION. ACCEPTION

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

  • ACCEPThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCEPT

    ACCEPT. See ACCEPTANCE, and ACCEPTATION. ACCEPT

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

  • ACCEPTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCEPTOR

    ACCEPTOR, of a bill of exchange, the person who accepts the bill. See ACCEPTANCE. The acceptor becomes a personal debtor by the acceptance; and is obliged to pay it, though the drawer fails before it becomes due. See EXCHANGE. ACCEPTOR

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

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

    Terms of Art are not immediately formed from the literal, or grammatical, but from the general, or philosophical, Acceptations of Words; which are their proper Basis, or the Ground-work they are erected on. The general or abstract Sense of some Word...

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

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    AFFIRMATION, Affirmatio, a positive Proposition, alleging the Truth of something. See PROPOSITION, and TRUTH. Affirmation is defined by the Logicians, an Act whereby we attribute one Idea to another; as supposing it to belong, or agree thereto—As when,...

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

  • 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...

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

  • 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...

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

  • Commercehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/commerce

    COMMERCE, or the Affairs of MERCHANDIZE ; including, Money, Coin, Species &c. as Pound, Crown, Shilling, Penny, Sterling. Ducat, Dollar, Piece of Eight. Talent, Sesterce, Shekel, and the* like. Weights, Libra, Ounce, &c. Measures, Foot, Yard, Standard,...

    • Type: Category

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...

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

  • ARGENTUM ALBUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARGENTUM%20ALBUM

    ARGENTUM ALBUM, mentioned in Domesday, signifies bullion, or silver uncoined. See BULLION. In those ancient days, such passed as money from one to another in payment—accepted as this metal weighed but not marked. Spelman. See SILVER and MONEY. ARGENTUM...

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

  • 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
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