Cyclopædia
Assuming sex is required, the following 4 results were found.
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Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A
A ; but that Girls first put forth E ; each pronouncing the initial Letter of the Name of the first Parent of its respective Sex, Dr. Littleton, setting Adam aside, makes the one speak the final, and the other the initial Letter of the Name of the...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Grammar
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ABBESShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBESS
The Abbess has the same Rights, and Authority over her Nuns that the Abbots regular have over their Monks. See ABBOT. The Sex indeed does not allow her to perform the Spiritual Functions annex'd to the Priesthood, wherewith the Abbot is usually...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Theology
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AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AGNATION
the Twelve Tables, males and females succeeded one another according to the order of proximity, and without any regard to the sex. But the laws were afterwards changed in this respect by the Lex Voconia, and women were excluded from the privileges of...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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ANDROGYNEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANDROGYNE
or Androgynus, 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;...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified