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

    of Years, or of Persons employ'd. THE Reader might be here led to suspect something of Disingenuity; and think I first put a Book upon him, and then give him Reasons why I should not have done it.-----But his Suspicions will cease, when he is appriz'd...

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

  • ALCORANhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCORAN

    but 'tis in the first of these Senses that the Alcoran of Mahomet seems best understood; Mahomet purposing to have his Book called Reading, by way of Eminence; in imitation of the Jews and Christians, who call the New and the Old Testament Writing,...

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

  • Bookhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php?view=category&id=1369359

    • Type: Category

  • APOCALYPSEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOCALYPSE

    Apocalypsis, q.d. Revelation; the Name of the last Book in the Canon of Scripture. See CANON and BIBLE. The Apocalypse contains Discoveries, or Revelations relating to many important Mysteries of Christian Faith; made to the Apostle St. John, in the...

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

  • BOOK-KEEPINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/BOOK-KEEPING

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

  • AUTHORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHOR

    αὐτός, ipse. The term author is sometimes also used in the same sense with inventor.—Polydore Virgil has written eight books of the authors or inventors of things, etc. See INVENTION. Pythagoras is held the author of the dogma of Metempsychosis. See...

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

  • AUDITORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUDITOR

    king, or some other great person, who yearly, by examining the accounts of under officers accountable, makes up a general book, with the difference between their receipts and charge, and their allowances or allocations. See ACCOUNT. AUDITORS OF THE...

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

  • APOSTLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTLE

    Epistles of St. Paul, printed in the Order wherein they are to be read in Churches, through the Course of the Year. Another Book of the like kind, containing the Gospels, is called Εὐαγγέλιον (Euangelion), Gospel. The Apostle, of late Days, has also...

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

  • ADOPTIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOPTIVE

    were either to be instituted heirs, or expressly disinherited; otherwise, the testament was null.M. Menage has published a book of Eloges, or verses addressed to him, which he calls Liber Adoptivus, an adoptive book; and adds it to his other works....

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

  • ANCIENT DEMESNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCIENT%20DEMESNE

    St. Edward's time, were held. See TENURE and DEMESNE. The Numbers, Names, etc., hereof were entered by the Conqueror in a Book called Domesday-Book, yet remaining in the Exchequer; so that such Lands as by that Book appeared to have belonged to the...

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

  • ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES

    were not the only Persons who disputed the Truth of Antipodes. Lucretius had done it before them at the end of his first Book, v.10, 63, etc. See also PLUTARCH, lib. de Facie in Orbe Lunae, and Pliny, who refutes the Opinion, lib. ii. c. 65. ANTIPODES

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

  • ALKACHESThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKACHEST

    declares he first observed it in Paracelsus, as a Word that was unknown before the Time of that Author, who in his second Book, De viribus Membrorum, treating of the Liver, has these Words: Eft etiam Alkahett liquor, magnam hepatis conservandi &...

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

  • ANIMADVERSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMADVERSION

    sometimes signifies Correction;sometimes Remarks, or Observations made on a Book, etc.,and sometimes, a serious Consideration and Reflection on any Subject, by way of Criticism. The Word is formed of the Latin animadvertere, to animadvert: of animus,...

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

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

    esteemed themselves obliged thereto by the Commandment of God. Luther, finding all his Exhortations ineffectual, published a Book wherein he invited all the World to take up Arms against those Fanatics, who thus abused the Word of God. He was obliged to...

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

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

    only what is sound alike in all. — Thus it is that I say, I love my Friend, love my Mistress, love my self, my Bottle, my Book, my Ease, &c.— Not that it is possible I should have the same Sensation with respect to so many different sorts of things,...

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

  • ANTHOLOGIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ANTHOLOGION

    Anthologion, a Church Book in use among the Greeks. See GREEK. The Anthologion is a sort of Breviary or Mass-Book, containing the daily Offices addressed to our Saviour, the Virgin, and the principal Saints; with other Common Offices of Prophets,...

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

  • ANNOTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNOTATION

    a succinct Commentary, or Remark on any Book, or Writing; in order to clear up some Passage, or to draw some Induction or Consequence from it. See COMMENTARY, etc. The Critics of the last Age have made learned Annotations on the Scriptures; the...

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

  • ALLEGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLEGATION

    the Citation, or Quotation of an Authority, Book, Passage, &c. to make good any Point, or Assertion. See QUOTATION, CITATION, AUTHORITY, &c.

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

  • ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC

    of the several Rules. See NUMBER. Euclid furnishes a Theoretical Arithmetic, in the seventh, eighth, and ninth Books of his Elements.—Basilius Monachus has also given a Theory for demonstrating the common Operations, both in Integers and broken Numbers,...

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

  • ADVERSARIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVERSARIA

    among the ancients, was used for a book of accounts, like our journal or day-book; thus called, quod adversa parte etiam scriptis impleretur, because wrote even on the backside. Hence, adversaria is sometimes also used among us for a common-place-book....

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