Cyclopædia
Assuming critical is required, the following 7 results were found.
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CRITICAL Dayshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CRITICAL-Days
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ARISTARCHUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARISTARCHUS
ARISTARCHUS,in its original Greek, signifies, good Prince; but in its ordinary Use among the Learned, is understood of a very severe Critic; there having been a Grammarian of that Name, who criticized on the Verses of the very best Poets. See CRITIC and...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ATAXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATAXY
Ataxia, a want of order or regularity—The term is chiefly used in medicine, where the order of the critical days, or other phenomena of a disease, is inverted. See CRITICAL. The physicians have frequent recourse to an Ataxy or irregularity of the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
would make downright Nonsense, were the Readers to keep to the strict import of the Words. But the Truth is, we are not so critical about the Matter; if the Meaning comes within our reach we jump at it, and are glad to take it; without waiting to see...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT
is erroneous;there having been a Hebrew Grammar composed by R. Saadias Gaon, many Years before R. Judah. In M. Simon's Critical History of the Old Testament, we have a Catalogue of Hebrew Grammars; at the Head of which is this of R. Saadias: M. Simon,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION
ACTION, Actio, in Physics, is the production of an effect or the manner of an active cause. See ACTION and ACTIVE. The idea of action is so familiar to us that a definition may as easily obscure as explain it. Some Schoolmen, however, attempt to...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES
ANTIPODES, or Antoecians, in Geography, a relative Term, understood of such Inhabitants of the Earth as live diametrically opposite to one another. See EARTH. The Antipodes are those who live in Parallels of Latitude equally distant from the Equator,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography