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  • ABACUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ABACUS

    a Column ; serving as a kind of Crowning, both to the Capital and the whole Column. See COLUMN. Dr. Harris, and the rest of die Dictionary-Writers, make the Abacus to be the Capital it self ; which is altogether as just, as to make the Crown of the Head...

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

  • SINE-DIEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/SINE-DIE

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

  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    Astrologia, the Art of foretelling future Events, from the Aspects, Positions, and Influences of the Heavenly Bodies. See ASPECT, INFLUENCE, etc. The Word is compounded of the Greek ἄστρον, Star, and λόγος, Discourse; whence, in the literal sense of the...

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

  • Architecturehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture

    ARCHITECTURE, including die Construction of BUILDINGS ; as House, Temple, Church, Hall, Palace, Theatre, &c. Ship, Galley, Galleon, Ark, Buccentaur, Boat, &c. Pyramid, Mausoleum, Pantheon, &c. Capitol, Seraglio, Escurial, &c. Arch, Vault, Bridge,...

    • Type: Category

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

    this would sometimes prove inconvenient for the Reader; who to find some particular Matter must go a long Circuit, and be bandied from one part of the Book to another : To say nothing of the Interruptions which may frequently happen in the Series of...

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

  • VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge

    &c. taking Distances, with Chain, Perambulator, &c. Plotting into Draught, Map, &c. with Protractor, &c. 3°, Solids or Bodies, as Cube, Parallelepiped, Prism, Pyramid, Cylinder, Polyhedron, &c. Their Surface, Solidity, &c. Operations relating hereto, as...

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

  • ANGELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGEL

    a Mountain with a single Feather of his Wing, etc. The Angel Azrael, they suppose, appointed to take the Souls of such as die; and another Angel, named Israfil, stands with the Trumpet ready in his Mouth to proclaim the Day of Judgment. See QURAN,...

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

  • AULAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AULA

    in our ancient Law-Books, signifies a Court Baron.—Aula ibidem tenta quarto die Augusti, etc. See BARON. Aula Ecclesiae is what we now call Navis Ecclesiae. See NAVE. AULA

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

  • ADEPTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEPTS

    always twelve Adepts; and that their places are immediately supplied by others whenever it pleases any of the Fraternity to die, or to transmigrate to some other place, where they may make use of their gold; for in this wicked world, it will scarcely...

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

  • ANNUALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUAL

    etc. Annual Plants, called also simply annuals; are such as only live their Year, i.e., come up in the Spring, and die again in Autumn: And accordingly are to be recruited every Year. See PLANT. Annuals stand contradistinguished from Biennials,...

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

  • ANNUITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUITY

    Halley, in his Observations on the Breslau Bills of Mortality, shows that it is 80 to 1 a Person of 25 Years of Age does not die in a Year; that it is 52 to one, a Man of 40 lives 7 Years; and that one of 30 may reasonably expect to live 27 or 28 Years....

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

  • ATHANATIhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATHANATI

    an Order of Soldiers among the ancient Persians. The Word is originally Greek, and signifies immortal, being compounded of the privative α, and θνῆσκω, to die. The Athanati were a Body of Cavalry, consisting of ten thousand Men, always complete,...

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

  • ASTRAGALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ASTRAGAL

    in Chaplets, or Beads and Berries, It is also used both above and below the Lists, adjoining immediately to the Squares or Die of the Pedestal. See DYE and PEDESTAL. The Word is derived from the Greek ἀστράγαλος, which signifies the ankle or Ankle-Bone....

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

  • ATTENDANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ATTENDANT

    a penny; and the mesne hold over by two pence: If the mesne releases to the tenant all his right in the land, and the tenant die, his wife shall be endowed of the land, and shall be attendant to the heir, of the third part of the penny, not of the third...

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

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

    or Alcahest, in Chemistry, a universal Menstruum or Dissolvent, wherewith some Chemists have pretended to resolve all Bodies into their first Matter. See MENSTRUUM, DISSOLVENT, MATTER, &c. Those two eminent Adepts, Paracelsus and Helmont, expressly...

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