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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

  • TERMINATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/TERMINATION

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

  • AUXILIARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUXILIARY

    AUXILIARY, auxiliaris, anything that is helping or assisting to another. See AUXILIUM. Thus we say a prince is to trust more to his own soldiers, than to auxiliary troops, etc. Auxiliary verbs, in grammar, are such as help to form or conjugate others;...

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

  • 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

  • ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE

    Year, called justices or Judges of Assize, who have several Commissions, by which they sit, viz. 1° Commission of Oyer and Terminer, directed to them, and many others of the best Account in their respective Circuits. See OYER and TERMINER.—In this...

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

  • ARTICLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARTICLE

    ARTICLE,Articulus, a little Part or Division of a Book, Writing, or the like—Aquinas divides his Sum of Theology, into several Questions; and each Question into divers Articles—Such an Account consists of so many Articles. Article is also used for the...

    • 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

  • ABDOMENhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/anatomy/ABDOMEN

    ABDOMEN, in Anatomy, the lower Belly, or that Part of the Body between the Hips and the Diaphragm. See BODY. Anatomists divide the Body into three Regions, or Venters ; the Head ; the Thorax, or Breast ; and the Abdomen, or Belly, absolutely so call'd ;...

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

  • ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE

    ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLE, is an Angle in a Segment of a Circle, whose Base is a Diameter thereof. See SEGMENT. It is demonstrated by Euclid, that the Angle in a Semicircle is a right one; in a Segment greater than a Semicircle, is less than a right one;...

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

  • ABBUTALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABBUTALS

    ABBUTALS, among Law-Writers, denote the Buttings or Boundings of a piece of Land ; expressing on what other Lands, Highways, or the like, the several Extremes thereof do abut, or terminate. Thus, in Croke, the Plaintiff is said to fail in his Abbutals,...

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

  • ACCELERATOR Urinaehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCELERATOR%20Urinae

    ACCELERATOR Urinae, a Muscle of the Penis, by some made a Pair of Muscles; thus called from its Office in expediting the Discharge of the Urine and Semen. See MUSCLE, PENIS, USE. It arises tendinous from the upper and sore-part of the Urethra; but soon...

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

  • ARMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARM

    ARM, Brachium, a part of the human Body, terminating at one End in the Shoulder, and at the other in the Hand. See BODY, SHOULDER, etc. Among Physicians, the Arm only includes that part between the Shoulder and the Elbow; the rest, from the Elbow to the...

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

  • ALTITUDEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ALTITUDE

    ALTITUDE, Altitudo, in Geometry, the third Dimension of a Body; called also Height, or Depth. See HEIGHT; see also BODY, DIMENSION, etc.Altitude, in Optics, is usually considered as the Angle subtended between a Line drawn through the Eye, parallel to...

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

  • ANAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ANA

    ANA, or aa, in Medicine, denotes an equal Quantity of any Thing, whether in liquid or dry Measure. See A. Hence Analectica Proportio is used by some Writers to signify the Ratio, or Proportion of Equality. See EQUALITY, RATIO, &c. Ana, in Matters of...

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

  • ARRIEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARRIERE

    ARRIERE-Guard. See REAR-GUARD. Arriere Vassal, or Tenant, the vassal or tenant of another vassal or tenant. See VASSAL, TENANT, etc. see also ARRIERE-FEE. ARRONDIE, in Heraldry, a Cross-Arrondie, or rounded, is that whose arms are composed of sections...

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

  • ADOLESCENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADOLESCENCE

    ADOLESCENCE, Adolescencia, the state of youth;or that period of a person's age commencing from his infancy, and terminating at his full growth. See AGE. The state of Adolescence lasts so long as the fibers continue to grow, either in magnitude or...

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

  • ASSONANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSONANCE

    ASSONANCE,in Rhetoric and Poetry, a term used where the Words of a Phrase, or a Verse, have the same Sound or Termination, and yet make no proper Rhyme. See RHYME. These are usually vicious in English; though the Romans sometimes used them with...

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

  • ACCUSATIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/ACCUSATIVE

    ACCUSATIVE, in Grammar, the fourth Case of Nouns that are declined. See CASE, and NOUN. Its Use may be conceived from this, That all Verbs which express Actions that pass from the Agent, as, to beat, to break, &c., must have Subjects to receive those...

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

  • ADDUCTOR Pollicishttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADDUCTOR%20Pollicis

    ADDUCTOR Pollicis, is a Muscle of the Thumb, which arises tendinous, and ascends obliquely towards a broad Termination, at the superior Part of the first Bone of the Thumb.Its Office is to bring the Thumb near the Fore-finger. See FINGER. ADDUCTOR...

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

  • ACUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACUTE

    ACUTE, sharp, something that terminates in a Point, or an Edge; disposed either for piercing or cutting. See POINT, EDGE, etc. In this sense, the word usually stands opposed to Obtuse.See OBTUSE. Acute Angle, is that which is less than a right angle;or...

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