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

    of framing another Set of Words, to express these Variations, and the Actions to which they are owing, with the several Circumstances and Modifications thereof. By this means, Nature is removed out of her dormant Constitution, and shown in Action; and...

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

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

    Division of Natural Bodies into the two opposite Classes of Acids and Alkalies. See ACID. Boerhaave scarce takes this Circumstance to be enough to constitute any determinate Class of Bodies. In effect, Alkalies are not of one similar homogeneous Nature:...

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

  • ADJUNCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ADJUNCT

    as to his mind; only grows, as to his body, etc. In ethics, we usually reckon seven adjuncts, popularly called circumstances; Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando. See CIRCUMSTANCE. Adjuncts, in rhetoric and grammar, are certain words...

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

  • ACCOMPANYMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOMPANYMENT

    ACCOMPANYMENT, something attending, or added as a Circumstance to another; either by way of Ornament, or for the sake of Symmetry, or the like. See CIRCUMSTANCE. The Music, in Dramatic Performances, should only be a simple Accompaniment. The Organists...

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

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

    to yield 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...

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

  • ADVERBhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ADVERB

    a particle joined to a verb, adjective, or participle, to explain their manner of acting or suffering; or to mark some circumstance or quality signified by them. See PARTICLE, VERB, etc. The word is formed from the preposition ad, and verbum; and...

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

  • AMAZONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AMAZON

    Children, and cutting off the left Breasts of their Females, to make them more fit for the Combat. It is from this last Circumstance that they take their Name, viz. from the Privative a, and μαζός, Mamilla, Breast. It is a Point controverted even among...

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

  • AVERNIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AVERNI

    that the sulphurous Effluvia hereof, not being of consistency to sustain the Birds, they fall by their own Weight. This Circumstance, joined with the great Depth of the Lake, occasioned them to take it for the Gate or Entrance of Hell; and accordingly...

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

  • AGNOMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGNOMEN

    among the Romans, was a kind of surname, usually given on occasion of some particular action, habit, or other circumstance of the bearer. See NAME, and SURNAME. Thus, one of the Scipios was named Africanus, and the other Asiaticus, from the brave...

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

  • ADMINICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ADMINICLE

    support.See AID, etc. In the civil jurisprudence, adminiculum signifies the beginning of a proof; an imperfect proof; a circumstance or conjecture, tending to form or fortify a proof. Among antiquaries, the term adminicules is applied to the attributes,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • ABDICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ABDICATION

    a Father was said to abdicate his disobedient Son. See ADOPTION. It disser 'd from Exheredation, Disinheriting, in this Circumstance, that the abdicated Son was banisti'd his Father's Family, and cut off from the Succession by a solemn Act, during the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice
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