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  • ATAMADULEThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATAMADULET

    ATAMADULET, the first Minister in the Persian Empire. See MINISTER. The Atamadulet, or, as Tavernier writes it, Athematdoulet; and Sanfon, Etmadaulet, is much the same with the Grand Vizier in Turkey, excepting that he has not the Command of the Army,...

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

  • ARCHhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCH

    form, if laid in numbers, one by the side of another, in a level row, and their extreme ones sustained between two supporters; those in the middle will necessarily sink, even by their own gravity, much more if pressed down by any superincumbent weight....

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

  • ANIMALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANIMALS

    Anatomy, Medicine, etc. See ANATOMY, MEDICINE, etc. Animals make the principal matter of Heraldry; both as Bearings and as Supporters, etc. See BEARING, SUPPORTER, etc. 'Tis an established Rule among the Heralds, that in Blazoning, animals are always to...

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

  • ATCHIEVEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ATCHIEVEMENT

    in Heraldry, the Coat of Arms of any Person or Family; duly marshalled with its external ornaments, as Supporters, Helmet, Wreath, Crest, and Motto. See COAT and ARMS. See also SUPPORTER, HELMET, etc. Such are usually hung out on the Fronts of Houses...

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

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

    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 they are bore principally on the Buckler, Cuirasse, Banners, and other Apparatus of...

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

  • ARMORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMOR

    is the Escutcheon of any Person, or Family, with its several Charges, and other Furniture, as Mantling, Crest, Supporters, Motto, etc. See ESCUTCHEON, CHARGES, CREST, MANTLING, SUPPORTER, MOTTO, etc. Thus we say, a Gentleman of Coat-Armour; meaning one...

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

  • ATLAShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLAS

    ATLAS, in Anatomy the Name of the first Vertebra of the Neck, which supports the Head. See VERTEBRA and NECK. It is so called in allusion to the celebrated Mountain Atlas in Africa, which is so high, that it seems to bear the Heavens; and to the Fable,...

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

  • ASPHALITEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALITES

    ASPHALITES,in Anatomy, the fifth Vertebra of the Loins. See VERTEBRA. It is thus called because conceived as the Support of the whole Spine of the Loins; from the Privative α and σφαλλω I supplant.

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

  • ARC-BOUTANThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARC-BOUTANT

    ARC-BOUTANT, in building, a flat arch or part of an arch abutting against the reins of a vault, to support, and prevent its giving way. See VAULT. Arc-boutants are only arched buttresses. The name is French; formed of arc and boutant, to abut....

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

  • ATLANTIDEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATLANTIDES

    ATLANTIDES, among the Poets See VERGILIUS. ATLAS, in Architecture is a Name given to those Figures, or Half-Figures of Men, so much used instead of Columns, or Pilasters; to support any Member of Architecture, as a Balcony, or the like. See COLUMN,...

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

  • AIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/AID

    AID, or Aide, Auxilium, literally denotes the Help, Succor, or Assistance, which any Person lends another when too weak to do, or avoid something. See ASSISTANT. The Word is French, formed, according to M. Menage, from the Italian Aiutare; and that from...

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

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    ATMOSPHERE, Ἀτμόσφαιρα an Appendage of our Earth; consisting of a thin, fluid, elastic Substance, called Air, surrounding the Terraqueous Globe, to a considerable Height. See EARTH. By atmosphere is usually understood the whole Mass or Assemblage of...

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

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

    ADMINICLE, Adminiculum, Adminiculatum, a term used in some ancient 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...

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

  • ACROTERIAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/architecture/ACROTERIA

    ACROTERIA, or Acroteres, in Architecture, little pedestals, usually without bases, placed at the middle, and at the two extremes of frontispieces or pediments; and serving to support statues. See PEDESTAL and STATUE. Those at the extremes ought to be...

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

  • AFFECTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AFFECTION

    AFFECTION, Affectio, in Physics, a Quality or Property of some natural Being. See QUALITY, and PROPERTY. The Schoolmen define Affection an Attribute proper to any Being, arising from the Essence thereof. See ATTRIBUTE, PROPER, etc. Affections are...

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

  • ASTRONOMYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTRONOMY

    ASTRONOMY, Astronomia, the Doctrine of the Heavens, and the Phenomena thereof. See HEAVEN. Astronomy is properly a mixed mathematical Science, whereby we become acquainted with the Celestial Bodies, their Magnitudes, Motions, Distances, Periods,...

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

  • ADHESIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ADHESION

    ADHESION, Adherence, in Physics, is the state of two bodies that are joined or fastened to each other, either by the mutual interposition of their own parts, or the compression of external bodies. See COHESION, and NEXUS. The word is compounded of the...

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

  • AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS

    AXIS properly signifies a line or long piece of iron or wood passing through the centre of a sphere, which is moveable upon the same. See SPHERE. In this sense we say the axis of a sphere, or globe; the axis, or axle-tree of a wheel, etc. See GLOBE,...

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

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

    AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...

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