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  • FAMILY of Curveshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/FAMILY-of-Curves

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

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

    of some noble act. See CHARGE. Speaking, or Vocal Arms, are those wherein the figures bear an allusion to the name of the family—Such are those of the family of La Tour in Auvergne, who bear a tower; that of the family of Prado in Spain, whose field is...

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

  • ADOPTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOPTION

    Adoptio, an act by which anyone takes another into his family, owns him for his son, and appoints him his heir. See FAMILY, SON, &c. The word is derived from adoptare; whence came adoubare, to make a Knight: whence also Miles adoubatus, a Knight newly...

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

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

    from the first simple Ideas that gave rise to it, to its last, and utmost Composition. This is like giving the Root of the Family; which is certainly necessary to its Genealogy — Yet we have not always kept to this Method. In some Words, there is a deal...

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

  • ARKhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ARK

    that the lowest Story was destined for the Beasts, the middle for the Food, and the upper for the Birds, with Noah and his Family; each Story being subdivided into different Apartments, Stalls, etc.—Though Josephus, Philo, and other Commentators, add a...

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

  • ARMORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMOR

    Officers, and those of the Cavalry, were obliged to resume the Cuirass.—Coat-Armour, is the Escutcheon of any Person, or Family, with its several Charges, and other Furniture, as Mantling, Crest, Supporters, Motto, etc. See ESCUTCHEON, CHARGES, CREST,...

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

  • ANAGRAMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGRAM

    the Anagram of Galenus is Augelus; that of Logica, Caligo; that of Loraine, is Alerion; on which account it was, that the Family of Lorrain took Alerions for their Armoury. Calvin, in the Title of his Institutions, printed at Strasburg in 1539, calls...

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

  • ANNULEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNULET

    a.g. d. little Ring; in Heraldry, is a Difference or Mark of Distinction, which the fifth Brother of any Family ought to bear in his Coat of Arms. See DIFFERENCE. Annulets are also part of the Coat-Armour of several Families: They were anciently reputed...

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

  • ASSASSINhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSASSIN

    Word Assassin is said, by some, to have been brought from the Levant, where it took its Rise from a certainPrince of the Family of the Arsacides, popularly called Assassins, living in a Castle between Antioch and Damascus,and bringing up a number of...

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

  • ADVOWSONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADVOWSON

    Licence of Election, was first to be obtained of the Patron, and the Person elected was confirmed by him. If the Founder’s Family was extinct, the Patronage of the Convent went to the Lord of the Manor. ADVOWSON

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

  • AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION

    then, between Agnation and Cognation consists in this: that Cognation is the universal name under which the whole family, and even the Agnates themselves are contained; and Agnation a particular branch of Cognation, which only includes the descendants...

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

  • ABDICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ABDICATION

    It disser 'd from Exheredation, Disinheriting, in this Circumstance, that the abdicated Son was banisti'd his Father's Family, and cut off from the Succession by a solemn Act, during the Father's Life: whereas Exheredation only took place in virtue of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • ATCHIEVEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ATCHIEVEMENT

    in Heraldry, the Coat of Arms of any Person or Family; duly marshalled with its external ornaments, as Supporters, Helmet, Wreath, Crest, and Motto. See COAT and ARMS. See also SUPPORTER, HELMET, etc. Such are usually hung out on the Fronts of Houses...

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

  • ARCHBISHOPRIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHBISHOPRIC

    which he was of Rochester; to make knights, coin monies, etc. He is still the first peer of England, and next to the Royal Family; having precedence of all dukes, and all great officers of the crown. See NOBILITY, PEER, PRECEDENCE, etc. He has, by...

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