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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...

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

  • 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

  • AGONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AGON

    AGON, in antiquity, agon, q. d. combat; a dispute or contention for the mastery, either in some exercises of the body, or the mind. There were of these agones, on certain days, in most of their feasts, and other ceremonies, in honor of gods or heroes....

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

  • AIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AID

    AID, or Aide, Auxilium, literally denotes the Help, Succor, or Assistance, which any Person lends another when too weak to do, or avoid something. See ASSISTANT. The Word is French, formed, according to M. Menage, from the Italian Aiutare; and that from...

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

  • ARMShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMS

    ARMS, Arma,all Kinds of Weapons, whether for Defense or Offence. See WEAPON, DEFENSE, etc. The Arms of Offense, are the Sword, Pistol, Musket, Bayonet, Pike, etc. See SWORD, GUN, etc. Arms of Defense. See under Armor. Fire-Arms. See FIRE-ARMS. The...

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    ASTRONOMY, Astronomia, the Doctrine of the Heavens, and the Phenomena thereof. See HEAVEN. Astronomy is properly a mixed mathematical Science, whereby we become acquainted with the Celestial Bodies, their Magnitudes, Motions, Distances, Periods,...

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • AGENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AGENT

    AGENT, Agents, in Physics, refers to something by which an action is done or effected; or which has the power to act upon another and by its action induces some change in the other. See ACT and ACTION. The word Agent is used interchangeably with...

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

  • AULIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AULIC

    AULIC, AULICA, an Act which a young Divine maintains in some foreign Universities, upon the Admission of a new Doctor of Divinity. See ACT. It is so called from the Latin, Aula, a Hall; it being in the Hall of the University that this Act is usually...

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

  • AXIOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIOM

    AXIOM, ἀξίωμα, a self-evident truth; or a proposition whose truth every person perceives at first sight. See TRUTH and PROPOSITION. Thus, that the whole is greater than a part; that a thing cannot give what itself has not; that a thing cannot be and not...

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

  • ARCHONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARCHON

    ARCHON, in antiquity, a chief magistrate of Athens—After the Athenians had abolished monarchy, they created Archons, who were obliged to render an account of their administration. Some of these were annual, and others perpetual; Medon, the son of...

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

  • ASYLUMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASYLUM

    ASYLUM, or Asylum, a Sanctuary; or Place of Refuge and Protection, where a Criminal who shelters himself is deemed inviolable, and not to be touched by any Officer of Justice. See REFUGE, PRIVILEGE, etc. The Word Asylum is Latin: Servius derives it from...

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

  • ADMIRALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMIRAL

    ADMIRAL, Admiratus, Admiralty, a great officer, who commands the naval forces of a kingdom or state; and before whom all causes are cognizable, relating to the sea. See NAVY, SEA, etc.Authors are divided about the origin and denomination of this...

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

  • ADVOWEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVOWEE

    ADVOWEE, or Avower, or Advocate of a Church, was heretofore the Patron, or Defender of the Rights thereof. See ADVOCATE, PATRON, etc. The word is French, Advoué, or Avoué, of the verb Avouer, to avow, own, acknowledge dependence, subjection, etc. ——...

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

  • ANALOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALOGY

    ANALOGY, a certain Relation, Proportion, or Agreement, which several Things, in other respects different, bear to each other.—Such is that between the Bull in the Heavens, and the Animal so called on Earth. The Word is Greek, Ἀναλογία (Analogia); which...

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

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    ANIMALS are ordinarily divided into terrestrial, aquatic, volatile, amphibious, Insects, etc. Terrestrial Animals are either Quadrupeds or Reptiles. Quadrupeds have either the Feet cloven, as the Bullock; or entire, as the Horse; or divided into several...

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

  • ADULTERYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADULTERY

    ADULTERY, Adulterium, in our ancient law-books called Advowtry, a crime committed by married persons, against the faith pledged to each other in marriage; by having carnal commerce with someone else: or even by a person not married; by having to do with...

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