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  • ADMINICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/politics/ADMINICLE

    statutes, for aid, help, or support.See AID, etc. In the civil jurisprudence, adminiculum signifies the beginning of a proof; an imperfect proof; a circumstance or conjecture, tending to form or fortify a proof. Among antiquaries, the term adminicules...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Politics - Policy - Justice

  • COUNTER-PROOFhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/COUNTER-PROOF

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

  • AMPLIFICATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/AMPLIFICATION

    cannot subsist, excepting in Abundance. See SUBLIME. There is likewise a difference between the Amplification, and the Proof; in that the one serves to clear the Point, and the other to heighten, and exaggerate It. See PROOF. There are two general Kinds...

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

  • ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS

    demonstrative; in regard that these act not by choice, but by a necessary Impulse.""It is commonly, indeed, alleged, as a Proof of a Power Nature has given Bodies of flying their Contraries, that Drops of Water, falling on a Table, collect into little...

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

  • APPROVERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APPROVER

    or more of his Accomplices. See APPEAL. He is so called because he must prove what he hath alleged in his Appeal. This Proof should either be by Battle, or by the Country, at the choice of the Appellee. See PROOF, BATTLE, PAYS, etc. Approvers of the...

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

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    of Air; the other Properties hitherto enumerated being common to it with other Fluids. Of this Power we have numerous Proofs.—Thus, a blown Bladder being squeezed in the Hand; we find the included Air sensibly resist; so as upon ceasing to compress, the...

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

  • ANGELhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGEL

    Writers, after Zanchantius, Institut, Lib. I. c.xv. alledge the Energumens, and the Operations of Magick, as convincing Proofs thereof. St. Thomas produces other Considerations, in behalf of the Opinion, Lib. II. contra gentes, c. xlvi. Authors are not...

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

  • ARTIFICIALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTIFICIAL

    chiefly used on solemn Occasions, by Way of Rejoicing. See FIRE-WORKS. Artificial Arguments,in Rhetoric, are all such Proofs or Considerations as arise from the Genius, Industry, or Invention of the Orator. See ARGUMENT and INVENTION. Such are...

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

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

    Age Prier, Bar, Abate, Release, Replication, Outlawry, Sequestration, &c. 3°, Ussue; whence Demurrer. 4°, Trial; whence Proof, Evidence, Presumption, Oath, Affidavit, Affirmation. Jury, Challenge, Array, Verdict. Battel, Duel, Champion, Purgation,...

    • Type: Category

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

    Age Prier, Bar, Abate, Release, Replication, Outlawry, Sequestration, &c. 3°, Ussue; whence Demurrer. 4°, Trial; whence Proof, Evidence, Presumption, Oath, Affidavit, Affirmation. Jury, Challenge, Array, Verdict. Battel, Duel, Champion, Purgation,...

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

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

    Operations and Phenomena of natural Bodies between them. Assertions of such moment ought not to be received, without further Proof. Indeed, the very Distribution of Salts into Acids and Alkalics, has something arbitrary in it; there being not only...

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

  • ADJUNCThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ADJUNCT

    etc. See ADJECTIVE, ATTRIBUTE, EPITHET, etc. Arguments drawn from adjuncts are supplements or reinforcements of the proof arising from the circumstances of the fact. See CIRCUMSTANCE, etc. Adjunct is also used in civil concerns, for a colleague, or...

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

  • ANTIMONYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/natural-history/ANTIMONY

    is crude Antimony ground and calcined by a vehement Fire, in an earthen Crucible; till it ceases to fume, which is a Proof that its Sulphur is evaporated. The Calx is then vitrified in a Wind Furnace; upon which it becomes transparent, ruddy, and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Natural History

  • ABATEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ABATEMENT

    tho they may shew some extraordinary Resentments of Princes for Offences committed in their Presence, do not amount to a Proof of such Custom or Practice ; much less authorize the Being of particular Badges in the Hands of inferior Officers, as Kings at...

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

  • ARMINIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMINIANS

    in the Pelagians, and Semi-Pelagians; they replied, that the mere Authority of Men could not be allowed a legitimate Proof anywhere but in the Church of Rome; that it was not enough to show any Opinion had been condemned, without showing it had been...

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

  • ANTICHRISThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANTICHRIST

    Antichristus, among Divines, etc., a Tyrant who is to reign on Earth, toward the end of the World; for the ultimate Proof of the Elect; and to give a shining Instance of the Divine Vengeance, before the last Judgment. The Word is compounded of the Greek...

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

  • ASSAYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSAY

    or Essay, or Say, in Coinage, etc. the Proof or Trial of the Goodness, Purity, Value, etc. of Gold, Silver, or other Metals. See GOLD, SILVER, METAL, etc. The Methods of Assaying, or making Assays, see under the Article ESSAY. Assay of Weights and...

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

  • ABDUCTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ABDUCTION

    contain'd in the Medium, but the Medium not so evidently in the lesser Extreme as not to require some further Medium, or Proof to make it appear. Thus, in the Syllogism, All whom God absolves are free of Sin ; bus God absolves all who are in Christ :...

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

  • AUTHORITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUTHORITY

    understood of an apophthegm, or sentence of some great or eminent person, quoted in a discourse, either by way of proof, or embellishment. The term also includes rules, laws, canons, decrees, decisions, etc. alleged in confirmation of a matter in...

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

  • APODICTICAL Argumenthttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APODICTICAL%20Argument

    Argument, or Syllogism, Signifies a clear, convincing Proof, or Demonstration of a Thing. See DEMONSTRATION, ARGUMENT, etc. The Word is formed of the Greek ἀποδεικτικός (apodeiktikos), I demonstrate, I show clearly. APODICTICAL Argument

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