Cyclopædia
Assuming rabbins is required, the following 8 results were found.
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ACADEMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACADEMY
the common University-Education. Academy is also used in speaking of the Schools of the Jews: i.e. those where the Rabbins or Doctors instruct the Youth of their Nation in the Hebrew Tongue; explain to 'em the Talmud, teach 'em the Cabbala, &c. See...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ABELIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABELIANS
Person in the World, or the Story had reach'd Africa, and given occasion both to the Sect, and the Name. 'Tis true, the Rabbins do hold, that Adam, after the Death of Abel, remain'd a long time without any use of Marriage ; and till the Time when he...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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AMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AMEN
’tis known, that to express the Words אדני מלך נאמן, Adonai Melech Neeman, in the ordinary way of Abbreviatures; the Rabbins only take the initial Letters, which joined together, are really the Letters of the Word אמן, Amen. See ABBREVIATURE. On the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANDROGYNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANDROGYNE
an Hermaphrodite; something born with two Sexes, being Male and Female in the same Person. See HERMAPHRODITE. Many of the Rabbins are of opinion, that Adam was created Androgynous; that he was Male on one Side, and Female on the other; and that he had...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABBREVIATUREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ABBREVIATURE
List of the principal Abbreviatures in the several Arts and Faculties, see under the Article CHARACTER. Of all People, the Rabbins are the greatest Dealers in this way ; their Writings are unintelligible, without an Explication of the Hebrew...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Grammar
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Theologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology
THEOLOGY, or the Consideration of GOD: his Nature and Attributes, as Eternity, Ubiquity, &c. His Unity, Trinity, &c. Persons, Hypostasis. &c. Our Duty to him, discover'd by Inspiration, Revelation, Prophecy, &c. by the Mesiah, Evangelisis, Apostles,...
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT
ACCENT, Accentus, a certain 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...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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