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

    not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a Performance...

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

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    effect, therefore, may be justly imputed to the agent. See MORAL. A Moral Action may be more fully defined to be whatever a person, considered as endowed with the powers of understanding and willing, and with respect to the end he ought to aim at, and...

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

  • ACTORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/poetry/ACTOR

    ACTOR, in Dramatic Poetry, one who represents some Person or Character upon the Theatre. See PERSON, and CHARACTER. Tragedy, in its original, only consisted of a simple Chorus, who sang Hymns in honor of Bacchus. See TRAGEDY, and CHORUS. Thespis was...

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

  • APPEALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPEAL

    of himself gives up his Accusation in Writing to the Sheriff or Coroner, offering to undergo the Burden of appealing the Person therein named. This Practice is drawn from the Normans, as appears from the grand Customary, wherein is a solemn Discourse...

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

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

    for a young man to adopt an elder;because that had been contrary to the order of nature: but it was even required that the person who adopted should be eighteen years older than his adoptive son; that there might at least appear a probability of his...

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

  • ABJURATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABJURATION

    Thus, Abjurare creditum, was to forswear a Debt, or to deny the owing it upon Oath, &c. So, in our own Laws, To abjure a Person, is to renounce all Authority or Dominion of such a Person. Thus, by the Oath of Abjuration, a Person binds himself not to...

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

  • ABSOLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABSOLUTION

    ABSOLUTIO, in the Civil Law, &c. a definitive Sentence, whereby a Person accused of any Crime, &c. is acquitted, and declared Innocent. Among the Romans, the ordinary Method of pronouncing Judgment was this : After the Cause had been pleaded on both...

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

  • ADDICTIOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADDICTIO

    It is formed from Addico, one of the stated words used by the Roman judges when they allowed the delivery of the thing or person on whom judgment had passed. Hence, goods thus adjudged by the Praetor to the right owner were called Bona addita; and...

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

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

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

  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    inflection of voice, or a peculiar tone and manner of pronunciation, contracted from the country or province where a person was bred. See VOICE and PRONUNCIATION. In this sense, we say the Welsh tone or accent, the Northern accent, the Gascon accent,...

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

  • AUTHORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHOR

    is held the author of the dogma of Metempsychosis. See METEMPSYCHOSIS, etc. AUTHOR, in matters of literature, is a person who has written or composed some book, or writing. See BOOK, WRITING, etc. Thus we say the sacred authors; anonymous authors,...

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

  • ACCOUNThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCOUNT

    OF ACCOUNT; see also POUND, etc. Account is also a relative term used in respect to a company or society when two or more persons have received or disbursed for each other; or when this has been done by their order or commission. See COMPANY,...

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

  • APOSTLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APOSTLE

    a Gourd-Bottle; St. Simon, with a Saw; and St. Thaddaeus, with a Club. The Word Apostle, Ἀπόστολος, originally signifies a Person delegated or sent; from the Verb ἀποστέλλω (apostellō), to send. In this Sense it occurs in Herodotus, and other profane...

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

  • ALMONERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALMONER

    DEODAND.He had likewise, by an ancient Custom, a Privilege to give the first Dish from the Royal Table, to whatsoever poor Person, he pleased, or, instead thereof, an Alms, in Money.He also distributes daily to 24 poor Men, nominated by the Parishioners...

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

  • ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE

    eighth and ninth Articles of the Treaty of Munster. Articles of the Clergy, Articuli Cleri, are certain Statutes touching Persons and Causes ecclesiastical, made under Edward II, and III. Article of Faith, is some Point of Christian Doctrine which we...

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

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

    Combination thereof in some new manner, so as to exhibit one or more Words, either to the Advantage or Disadvantage of the Person to whom it belongs. See NAME. The Word is formed from the Greek ἀναγράμματα (anagrammata), I write backwards. Thus, the...

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

  • ANNUITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANNUITY

    between a Rent and an Annuity consists in this, that Rent is payable out of Land; whereas an Annuity charges only the Person of the Grantor. See RENT, WRIT, ACTION, etc. Add, that annuities are never taken for Assets; as being no Freeholds in Law. See...

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

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

    a Person who kills another with the Advantage either of an Inequality in the Weapons, or by meansof the Situation of the Place, or by attacking him at unawares. See MURDER, DUEL, etc. The Word Assassin is said, by some, to have been brought from the...

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

  • ADVOCATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ADVOCATE

    Advocatus, among the Romans, a person skilled in their law, and who undertook the defense of causes at the bar. See LAW. The word is compounded of ad, and voco, i.e. I call to my aid, or defense. The Roman Advocates answered to one part of the office of...

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

  • ASSIGNEEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSIGNEE

    in Law,a Person to whom a Thing is appointed, or assigned, to be occupied, paid, or done. See ASSIGN. An Assignee differs from a Deputy in this, that the Assignee possesses or enjoys the thing in his own Right, and a Deputy in the Right of another. See...

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