Cyclopædia
Assuming fasting is required, the following 16 results were found.
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FASThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/FAST
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE
in the Apostolical Constitutions, on all fast and meagre Days ; and the Church of England recommends certain Days of Fasting and Abstinence.---— The Great Fast, says St. Augustin, is to abstain from Sin. See FAST. The antient Athletæ liv'd in a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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ARMENIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMENIANS
See GREEK, AZYMUS, etc. They abstain very rigorously from eating of Blood and Meats strangled, and are much addicted to Fasting, insomuch, that to hear them talk, one would conclude that their whole Religion consisted in Fasting. The Monastic Order is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ARS NOTORIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARS%20NOTORIA
NOTORIA,is a manner of acquiring Sciences by Infusion, without any other Application than a little Fasting, and making a few Ceremonies. See FASTING, &c. They who make Profession of this Art, affirm that it was by means hereof that Solomon, in one...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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HOLD-fasthttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/HOLD-fast
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ADVENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ADVENT
ADVENT, Adventurus, in the calendar, the time immediately preceding Christmas; anciently employed in pious preparation for the Adventus, or coming on, of the Feast of the Nativity. See NATIVITY, etc. Advent includes four Sundays or weeks; commencing...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ANOREXYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANOREXY
of Appetite. See APPETITE. Anorexia is properly a longer continuance than is natural, without a desire to eat. See FOOD, FASTING, DISEASE, etc. If the Thought, or the Sight of proper Food, create a Sickness in the Stomach, or a Tendency to vomit; it is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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ABORTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABORTION
Womb, Relaxation of the Ligaments of the Placenta, Weakness, and want of Nourishment in the Fœtus ;excess of eating, long fasting or waking, the use of Busks for the Shape, offensive Smells, violent Purgatives; and, in the general, any thing that tends...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION
to intimate, that the feast was held before the Communion; but by an ordinance made later, they were obliged to communicate fasting, so that the Agapes were postponed until the Sacrament was over. Some authors imagined this ceremony to have been, not a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ASH WEDNESDAYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASH%20WEDNESDAY
WEDNESDAY,the first Day of Lent; so called from a Custom of the ancient Church, of Fasting in Sackcloth, with Ashes on their Heads, in Token of Humiliation. See LENT.
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANIMALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMAL
ANIMAL, a Being, which, besides the Power of growing, increasing, and producing its like, which Vegetables likewise have, is further endowed with Sensation, and spontaneous Motion. See BEING, SENSATION, and MOTION. The Word Animal is derived from the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASTHMAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ASTHMA
ASTHMA, in Medicine, a Disease of the Lungs, accompanied with a Shortness, and Difficulty of Respiration. See RESPIRATION and LUNGS. Or, Asthma is a Difficulty of Breathing, arising from a Disorder of the Lungs; and usually attended with violent Motions...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine
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AGONALIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AGONALIA
AGONALIA, or Agona, in antiquity, feasts celebrated by the Romans, in honor of Janus; or, as some will have it, in honor of the god Agonus, whom the Romans used to invoke upon their undertaking any business of importance. See FEAST. Authors vary as to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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AMPUTATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/AMPUTATION
AMPUTATION, in Chirurgery, the Operation of cutting off a Limb, or other Part of the Body, with an Instrument of Steel. See CHIRURGERY, OPERATION, etc. In Cases of Mortification, recourse is frequently had to Amputation. See MORTIFICATION, GANGRENE,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Anatomy
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ASTRINGENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ASTRINGENTS
ASTRINGENTS, ASTRINGENTIA, in Medicine, binding Remedies; or such as have the Power of contracting the Parts, and diminishing the Pores thereof. See MEDICINE. Astringents act either by the Asperity of their Particles, whereby they corrugate the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Medicine