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

    'TIS 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...

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

  • PLAYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/PLAY

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

  • ALLUSIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/ALLUSION

    ALLUSION, Allusio, in Rhetoric, a Figure whereby something is applied to, or understood of, another, by reason of some Similitude of Name, or Sound. Camden defines Allusion as a dalliance, or playing with Words like in Sound, but unlike in Sense; by...

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

  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT

    to this day; though it seems to draw its force from the authority of Horace, rather than that of Reason or Nature. All plays are held irregular that have either more or fewer. See FARCE. Some indeed have asserted that every just action consists of five...

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

  • ÆOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ÆOLIPILE

    ÆOLIPILE, Aeolipile, a hydraulic Instrument, consisting of a hollow metallic Ball, with a slender Neck or Pipe arising from the same; which being filled with Water, and thus exposed to the Fire, produces a vehement Blast of Wind. See WIND. This...

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

  • AEOLIPILEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AEOLIPILE

    AEOLIPILE, Aeolipile, a hydraulic Instrument, consisting of a hollow metallic Ball, with a slender Neck or Pipe arising from the same; which being filled with Water, and thus exposed to the Fire, produces a vehement Blast of Wind. See Wind. This...

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

  • ASCOLIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASCOLIA

    ASCOLIA,in Antiquity, a Feast which the Peasants of Attica celebrated in Honour of Bacchus. See FEAST. They sacrificed a Goat to him, and of the Skin thereof made a Football, which they blew up, and anointed with some unctuous Matter. The young People...

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

  • ARIEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARIES

    ARIES also denotes a Battering Ram; being a military Engine much in use among the ancient Romans, to batter and beat down the Walls of Places besieged. See MACHINE. Of this there were two kinds; the one rude and simple, the other artificial and...

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

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

    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...

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

  • AJUTAGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/hydrology/AJUTAGE

    AJUTAGE, in Hydraulics, part of the Apparatus of an artificial Fountain, or Jet d’Eau; being a kind of Tube, fitted to the Mouth or Aperture of the Vessel; through which the Water is to be played, and by it determined into this or that Figure.'Tis...

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

  • ASIDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASIDE

    they are never to be used but at a Pinch, which a good Author will scarcely suffer himself to be brought to. See PLAYS, TRAGEDY, Comedy; see also SOLILOQUY.

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

  • Gamehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/game

    Play, Ludus, a regular Diversion or a Sport prescribed, and limited by Rules. See GAMING.

    • Type: Category

  • ALKALYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/chymistry/ALKALY

    ALKALY, Alkali, or Alkathy, in Chemistry, a Name originally given, by the Arabians, to a Salt extracted from the Ashes of a Plant called Kali; and by us Glass-wort because used in the making of Glass. See KALI, and GRASS. Afterwards, the Term Alkaly...

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

  • ARGUMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ARGUMENT

    ARGUMENT, Argumentum, in Philosophy, as defined by Cicero, is some probable Matter alleged to gain Belief. See PROBABILITY, BELIEF, etc. Others, somewhat more scientifically, define Argument, a Medium, from whose Connection with two Extremes, the...

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