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Assuming establishment is required, the following 9 results were found.
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
of each other; being connected by nothing but their Compresence, or Co-existence in point of Time and Place. The Establishment of all other Relations is the Work of Reason; which, from these few sensible Relations, infers numerous others, e. g. from the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A
as the first of the seven Dominical Letters. See DOMINICAL. It had been in use among the Romans long before the Establishment of Christianity, as the first of the eight Nundinales Litteræ ; in imitation whereof it was, that the Dominical Letters were...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Grammar
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ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION
but what might have happened to ordinary persons. The second, by the importance of the action itself; such as the establishment or downfall of a religion, or a state; which is Virgil's action, and in which he has much advantage over Homer. Bossu...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE
Convention, &c. In this Sense we say, Articles of Marriage, Articles of Capitulation, Preliminary Articles, &c.—The Establishment of an East-India Company at Ostend, is a direct Breach of the eighth and ninth Articles of the Treaty of Munster. Articles...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ARMENIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMENIANS
chief Employment is Merchandise, in which they excel. The Cardinal de Richelieu, we are told, had a Design to make an Establishment of them in France, for promoting the Commerce of that Country. With regard to Religion, there are two Kinds of Armenians;...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ASSIGNMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIGNMENT
to another. See ASSIGN. The Assignment of a Dower, is the setting out of a Woman’s Marriage-Portion by the Heir. See ESTABLISHMENT and DOWER. ASSIGNMENT
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ALPHABEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ALPHABET
ALPHABET, the several Letters of a Language, disposed in their natural or accustomed Order. See LETTER, and LANGUAGE.The Word is formed from the Names of the two first Letters of the Greek Alphabet, Alpha, Beta; which were borrowed from those of the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION
ATTRACTION, Attractio, or Tractio, in Mechanics, the Act of a moving Power, whereby a Moveable is brought nearer to the Mover. See POWER and MOTION. As Action and Re-action are always equal, and contrary; it follows, that in all Attraction, the Mover is...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Mechanics
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ANABAPTISTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANABAPTISTS
ANABAPTISTS, a Religious Sect, whose distinguishing Tenet is, That Children are not to be baptized, till they arrive at Years of Discretion; as holding it requisite, that they give a Reason of their Faith, before they can receive a regular Baptism. See...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified