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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

  • PERSONALITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PERSONALITY

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

  • PERSONABLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PERSONABLE

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

  • PERSONALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PERSONAL

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

  • 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

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

    in institute, Code, Novel, Register, Pandect, Corpus, Domesday, &c. Kinds, Civil, Canon, Sumptuary, &c. Respecting, 1°, Persons, as the King; his Prerogative, Royalties, &c. viz. granting Dispensation, Pardon, Commendam, Exemption. Dignities'...

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

  • AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION

    declare, and affirm."Which is the form now used, in the same manner, and under the same limitation with the former. Any person deposing, upon his solemn affirmation, a known falsehood, incurs the penalty of willful and corrupt perjury. See PERJURY....

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

  • ASSETShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSETS

    with having enough descended or come to his hands to discharge that which is in demand. Assets are of two sorts, real and personal— Where a man dies seized of lands in fee-simple, the lands which descend to his heir, are assets real. See REAL. Where he...

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Legal Notice and Privacy Policyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/legal-notice-and-privacy-policy

    Website Publisher This website is a personal, non-commercial website. In accordance with the legislation applicable to websites published on a non-commercial basis, the publisher wishes to remain anonymous. The publisher's contact details have been...

    • Type: Article
    • Category: Introduction

  • Lawhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law

    in institute, Code, Novel, Register, Pandect, Corpus, Domesday, &c. Kinds, Civil, Canon, Sumptuary, &c. Respecting, 1°, Persons, as the King; his Prerogative, Royalties, &c. viz. granting Dispensation, Pardon, Commendam, Exemption. Dignities'...

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  • ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY

    being ascertained by a series of Observations, and the Share each Planet has therein; by knowing the precise Time of any Person’s Nativity, they were enabled from their Knowledge in Astronomy, to erect a Theme or Horoscope of the Situation of the...

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

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

    Figures and Colours, given or authorized by Sovereign, and bore in Banners, Shields, Coats, etc. for the Distinction of Persons, Families, and States. See FIGURE, COLOUR, SYMBOL, HONOUR, NOBILITY, etc. see also SUPPORTER. They are called Arms, in regard...

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

  • AUTHENTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHENTIC

    It also signifies something solemn, and celebrated; regularly clothed with all its formalities; and attested by proper persons to whom credit has been regularly given. In this sense we say, the truths of Christianity are founded on authentic...

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

  • AD Quod Damnumhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AD%20Quod%20Damnum

    in any town, or place. See FAIR, MARKET, etc. The same writ also issues for an inquiry to be made of what the king or other person may suffer, by granting lands in fee-simple to a convent, chapter, or other body politic; because such land falls into...

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

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    and take Cognizance of Appeals from them. See APPEAL, etc. Assize, was also a Court or Assembly, composed of several great Persons of the Realm; held occasionally in the King’s Palace, for the final Decision of all Affairs of Importance. See COURT,...

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