Cyclopædia
Assuming arabia is required, the following 9 results were found.
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ARABhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARAB
Arabian, Arabesque, something that belongs to the People of Arabia. See ARABIA. The Arabian Horse is said to be nursed with Camel’s Milk: There are many strange Reports of this Beast. The Duke of Newcastle assures us, that the ordinary Price of one is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARABIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABIC
Arabicus, something that relates to Arabia, or the Arabs. Arabic, or Arabic Language, is a Branch or Dialect of the Hebrew. See LANGUAGE and HEBREW. Father Angelo de St. Joseph speaks much of the Beauty and Copiousness of the Arabic. He assures us it...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN
&c., had been condemned by Oecumenical Councils; many Bishops, Priests, Monks, &c., being driven into the Deserts of Arabia and Egypt, furnished the Imposter with Passages, and crude ill-conceived Doctrines out of the Scriptures: And it was hence, that...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARABICKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABICK
ARABICUS, was also a title or denomination of honor, was given to Emperor Severus; on account of his conquering Arabia and reducing it into the form of a Roman Province. See TIME, and PROVINCE. On the reverse of some medals of that Emperor, we read...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACACIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ACACIA
Vera, is brought from the Levant; and supposed to be the Juice of the Pods of a large thorny Tree, growing in Egypt and Arabia. — Some Naturalists will have it the same Plant that yields the Gum Arabick. It is very austere and binding; and on that...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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DEFTARDARhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/DEFTARDAR
in their Districts. The Dephterder of Asia has two General Commissioners, ,the one for Anatolia, the other for Syria, Arabia, and Egypt; who have likewise their Sub-Commissioners, Clerks, &c. as those of Europe.The Word is compounded, first, of דפתר...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Politics - Policy - Justice
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ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE
surprizing to what a great Age the primitive Christians of the East, who retir'd from the Persecutions into the Desarts of Arabia and Egypt, lived, healthful and chearful, on a very little Food : Cassian assures us, that the common Rate for twenty four...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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ASSA-FOETIDAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSA-FOETIDA
theFarriers, is a Gum said to distil during the Summer’s Heats, from a little Shrub, frequent in Persia, Media, Assyria,and Arabia.—It is at first white, bordering on yellow, thenon red, and lastly on violet; and melts under the Fingers like Wax. It is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARABICIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABICI
were also a kind of heretics, who sprang up in Arabia, about the year 207; whose distinguishing tenet was that the soul died with the body, and also rose again with it. See RESURRECTION. Eusebius, lib. vi. c.38, relates that a council was called to stop...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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