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

    Censure for engaging in it, even disadvantageously; and whether to have fail'd in so noble a Design, may not be some degree of Praise. BUT, it will be here necessary to carry on the Division of Knowledge a little further; and make a precise Partition of...

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

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    has all the Properties of Air; and whether such Air is not transient, as well as that from humid ones; though not to that degree. Mr. Boyle argues, from an Experiment made in the Air-Pump with a lighted Match; that those light and subtle Fumes into...

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

  • ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION

    besides the propensity to descend impressed by the first cause, and which of itself were sufficient to continue the same degree of motion once begun, in infinitum; there is a constant accession of subsequent efforts of the same principle, gravity, which...

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

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    whom St. John degraded for his offense. Act, in the universities, is a thesis maintained in public by a candidate for a degree; or to show the capacity and proficiency of a student. See THESIS, DEGREE, etc. The candidates for the degree of Bachelor and...

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

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    in the gross, is so complex a thing, that it may solve a thousand different things alike: The Notion is but one Degree more simple and precise, than Action itself; and till more of its Properties are ascertained, it were better to apply it less, and...

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

  • AD OCTOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AD%20OCTO

    OCTO, i.e. to the eighth number; a term used by some ancient philosophers to denote the highest or superlative degree; because in their way of distinguishing qualities, they reckoned no degree above the eighth. See DEGREE, HUMOR, QUALITY, etc. AD OCTO

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

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    arch is described, having its center in the point of the angle. See ANGLE. Every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 degrees; and an arch is estimated according to the number of those degrees it takes up. Thus an arch is said to be of 30, of 80,...

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

  • ANGLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ANGLE

    to the Circumference of the whole Circle. See CIRCLE and CIRCUMFERENCE.—And thus, an Angle is said to be of so many Degrees, as are the Degrees of the Arch DE, See DEGREE. Hence also, since similar Arches, AB and DE, fig. 87. have the same Ratio to...

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

  • ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID

    first, and a fossil one is offered after. And it turns owing to this, that the vegetable acid having undergone a greater degree of fermentation in the body of the plant, has become rare and pervious, in respect of the more solid and weighty particles of...

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

  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    of Danger ; and that when there arrived, the natural Texture and Viscidity of the Blood, should discose it, by a further degree of Cold, to lag and stagnate in the Vessels : so that the Circulation stopping, and the Animal Functions being in great...

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

  • ALLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALLUM

    a kind of Mineral Salt, of an acid Taste, leaving in the Mouth a Sense of Sweetness accompanied with a considerable Degree of Astringency. See SALT.The ancient Naturalists allow of two sorts of Allum; the one Native, the other Factitious. The Natural is...

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

  • AFFINITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFINITY

    to Consanguinity; which is a Relation by Blood. See CONSANGUINITY. In the Mosaical Law, there are several Degrees of Affinity, wherein Marriage is expressly prohibited; which yet seem not at all prohibited by the Law of Nature.—Thus, Levit. C. XVIII....

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

  • ALLIGATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/ALLIGATION

    Mixture desired. The Nature, Quality, &c. of the several Ingredients of a Mixture being given, to find the Temperament or Degree of Fineness resulting from the Whole.—Place the several Quantities of the Mixture in Rows; against which place orderly their...

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    or the Height corresponding to any Rarity; and consequently the Altitude of the whole Atmosphere, supposing the utmost Degree of Rarity known beyond which the Air cannot go. See the Articles Barometer, Series, Progression, etc. See also GREG. Astron....

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

  • ATTRITIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATTRITION

    incurred the loss of Heaven and Punishment, i.e. the Pains of Hell. See HEAVEN and HELL. Attrition is esteem’d the lowest Degree of Repentance, being a step short of Contrition. See REPENTANCE and CONTRITION. ATTRITION

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

  • ANTIQUATEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIQUATED

    Relievo; the antique Manner, Taste, etc. Antique is sometimes even contradistinguished from ancient, which denotes a lesser degree of Antiquity, when the Art was not in its utmost Purity: Thus, antique Architecture is frequently distinguished from...

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

  • AMPUTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMPUTATION

    this Ligature another loose one is passed, for the Gripe, which being twisted by means of a Stick, may be straitened to any degree at pleasure. Then, the Patient being conveniently situated, and the Operator placed to the inside of the Limb; which is to...

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

  • ASTRINGENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ASTRINGENTS

    the Nature and Operation whereof, see under the Article STRENGTHENER. Astringents only differ from Styptics, in Degree of Efficacy. See STYPTIC. The Word is compounded of the Latin ad and stringo, I bind. Among Simples, Mint, red Roses, Nettles,...

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

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

    goes no farther than to the perceiving of such as are presemed to it : So that its Action is really no other than a degree of Passion. See SENSE. ABSTRACTION

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

  • ADOLESCENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOLESCENCE

    for any person under 45years. The word is formed from the Latin adolesco, I grow. The fibers being arrived at the degree of firmness, and tension sufficient to sustain the parts, no longer yield and give way to the efforts of the nutritious matter to...

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