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  • THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface

    Censure for engaging in it, even disadvantageously; and whether to have fail'd in so noble a Design, may not be some degree of Praise. BUT, it will be here necessary to carry on the Division of Knowledge a little further; and make a precise Partition of...

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

    has all the Properties of Air; and whether such Air is not transient, as well as that from humid ones; though not to that degree. Mr. Boyle argues, from an Experiment made in the Air-Pump with a lighted Match; that those light and subtle Fumes into...

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  • ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCELERATION

    besides the propensity to descend impressed by the first cause, and which of itself were sufficient to continue the same degree of motion once begun, in infinitum; there is a constant accession of subsequent efforts of the same principle, gravity, which...

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  • ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACT

    whom St. John degraded for his offense. Act, in the universities, is a thesis maintained in public by a candidate for a degree; or to show the capacity and proficiency of a student. See Thesis, Degree, etc. The candidates for the degree of Bachelor and...

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  • ACIDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACID

    first, and a fossil one is offered after. And it turns owing to this, that the vegetable acid having undergone a greater degree of fermentation in the body of the plant, has become rare and pervious, in respect of the more solid and weighty particles of...

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  • ABSTINENCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABSTINENCE

    of Danger ; and that when there arrived, the natural Texture and Viscidity of the Blood, should discose it, by a further degree of Cold, to lag and stagnate in the Vessels : so that the Circulation stopping, and the Animal Functions being in great...

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  • AFFINITYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFINITY

    to Consanguinity; which is a Relation by Blood. See Consanguinity. In the Mosaical Law, there are several Degrees of Affinity, wherein Marriage is expressly prohibited; which yetseem not at all prohibited by the Law of Nature.—Thus,Levit. C. XVIII. ver....

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  • AD OCTOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AD%20OCTO

    OCTO, i.e. to the eighth number; a term used bysome ancient philosophers to denote the highest or superlativedegree; because in their way of distinguishing qualities,they reckoned no degree above the eighth. See Degree,Humor, Quality, etc. AD OCTO

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

    for any person under 45years. The word is formed from the Latin adolesco, I grow. The fibers being arrived at the degree of firmness, andtension sufficient to sustain the parts, no longer yield and giveway to the efforts of the nutritious matter to...

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  • ABSTERGENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ABSTERGENTS

    call'd among Physicians Detergents. See DETERGENT. Abstergents are of the Genus of Balsamicks ; and only differ in their degree of Subtilty and Efficacy, from Vulneraries. See BALSAMICK, and VULNERARY. The principal Simples in the Class of Detergents,...

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  • ABBOThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology/ABBOT

    See ARCHIMANDRITES. They were really distinguish'd from the Clergy, tho frequently consounded with 'em, because a Degree above Laymen. S. Jerom, writing to Heliodorus, says expresly, Alia Monachorum est Causa, alia Clericorum. See CLERGY, PRIEST, &c. In...

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  • ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION

    goes no farther than to the perceiving of such as are presemed to it : So that its Action is really no other than a degree of Passion. See SENSE. ABSTRACTION

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  • ABSTRACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACT

    in Matters of Literature, for a compendious View, or Epitome of a larger Work. See EPITOME. An Abstract is supposed to be a degree shorter, and more superficial than an Abridgment. See ABRIDGMENT. ABSTRAIT

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  • AGNATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AGNATION

    this respect by the Lex Voconia, and women were excluded from the privileges of Agnation, excepting such as were within the degree of consanguinity, e.g., excepting the sisters of him who died intestate. And it was hence that the difference between...

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  • ACIDULEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACIDULE

    ACIDULE, in Natural History, a species of mineral waters which discover a degree of acidity to the taste. See Water. Acidules are native waters impregnated with particles of some acid mineral, such as Vitriol, Alum, Nitre, or Salt. See Water. Sometimes...

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  • ADAGIOhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADAGIO

    ADAGIO, in Music, one of the words used by the Italians to denote a degree or distinction of time. See TIME. The Adagio expresses a slow time; the slowest of any, except Grave. See ALLEGRO. The Triple 3 is ordinarily Adagio. See TRIPLE. ADAGIO

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  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACTION

    the whole effect is produced in the same moment; as the Creation of Light: And Successive, where the effect is produced by degrees; as Corruption, Fermentation, Putrefaction, Dissolution, etc. See Fermentation, Putrefaction, Dissolution, etc. The...

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  • ACCENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCENT

    to have been adopted and transferred thence intothe Hebrew by the Massoretes: He adds that they werefirst brought to their degree of Perfection by Rabbi JudahSen David Chi log, a Native of Fez, in the XIth Century.— 'Tis indeed possible, the Jews might...

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  • ACERBhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACERB

    ACERB Acerbus, a compound taste consisting ofsour, with the addition of a degree of roughness. SeeTaste. Such is the taste of all fruits before they are ripe. SeeFruit, Maturity, etc. The physicians usually make Acerb an intermediate savour between...

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