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  • ANTIPTOSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ANTIPTOSIS

    The Word comes from the Greek ἀντί, pro, and πτῶσις, Case. ANTIQUARY, Antiquarius, a Person who studies and searches after Monuments and Remains of the Ancients; as, old Medals, old Books, old Statues, Sculptures, and Inscriptions, and, in general, all...

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

  • ANTIQUATEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIQUATED

    Thus we say, the Heroes of Antiquity, the Marks of Antiquity, etc.; Antiquity is also used in respect of the Remains, or Monuments of the Ancients. See MONUMENT, REMAINS, RUINS, etc. Thus we say, the Antiquities of Greece, the Jewish Antiquities, Roman...

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

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

    Library, Musæum, Circus &c. Solemn Ceremonies, as Triumph, Tournament, Canousel, Quadril. Donative, Medal, Trophy, Monument, Funeral, Tomb, Catacomb, &c. 15 LAW or the Rules and Measures of SOCIETY ; publish'd in Act, Statute, Charter, Rescript,...

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

  • ALCHYMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALCHYMY

    in the Fable of the Argonauts; others find it in the Books of Moses, &c. But, if the Age of the Art be examined by the Monuments of History; it will lose a deal of this fancied Antiquity.—The learned Daub, Olaus Borrichius, has taken immense Pains to...

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

  • ARPAGUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARPAGUS

    who died in the cradle. The Romans made no funerals for their Arpagi—They neither burnt their bodies, nor made tombs, monuments, or epitaphs for them; which occasioned Juvenal to say,—Terra clauditur infansVel minor igne rogus. In later times it became...

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

  • ANTIENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTIENT

    See MODERN. The Word comes from the French ancien, of the Latin Antiquus. Thus, we say the ancient Architecture, ancient Monuments, ancient Church. See ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE, etc. When we say absolutely, the Ancients, we mean the Greeks and Romans. Thus,...

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

  • APOSTROPHEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/APOSTROPHE

    and beseeches him to repel the Parricide, etc. The Apostrophe is frequently also addressed to Inanimates, as Tombs, Monuments, Deceased, etc. Cicero’s Apostrophe to Tubero, in his Oration for Ligarius, is judged one of the finest Passages in his Works....

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

  • ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC

    the space of twelve centuries. The ravages of the Visigoths, in the 5th century, destroyed all the most beautiful monuments of antiquity; andarchitecture thenceforward became so coarse and artless,that their professed architects understood nothing at...

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

  • Politics - Policy - Justicehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics

    Library, Musæum, Circus &c. Solemn Ceremonies, as Triumph, Tournament, Canousel, Quadril. Donative, Medal, Trophy, Monument, Funeral, Tomb, Catacomb, &c.

    • Type: Category

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

    Ark, Buccentaur, Boat, &c. Pyramid, Mausoleum, Pantheon, &c. Capitol, Seraglio, Escurial, &c. Arch, Vault, Bridge, Monument, Tomb, &c. Forms thereof. Rotondo. Platform, Pinnacle, &c. Plans, Design, Ichnography, Prosile, Sic. Parts, as Foundation, Wall,...

    • Type: Category

  • ARGYRASPIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ARGYRASPIDES

    Account, Lib. xii. c. 7, Alexander having penetrated into India, and extended his Empire as far as the Ocean; for a Monument of his Glory, ordered the Armour of his Soldiers, and the Housings of his Horses, to be adorned with Silver: and hence commanded...

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