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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...

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  • CHEVERONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CHEVERON

    a Shield ; representing two Rafters of a House join'd together, without any Division. See ORDINARY, &c. It descends from the Chief towards the Extremities of the Coat, in form of a Pair of Compasses half open: Thus, he bears Gules, a Chevron Argent. The...

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

    and sunk on certain syllables. What they havepeculiar is that they do the office of the points in otherlanguages. See Pointing. Be this as it will, 'tis certain the ancient Hebrews werenot acquainted with these Accents ; so that, at best, theyare not...

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  • NOMBRIL Pointhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/NOMBRIL%20Point

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  • DOUBLE Pointhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DOUBLE%20Point

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  • POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/POINT

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

    ACTION, Actio, in Physics, is the production of an effect or the manner of an active cause. See Action and Active. The idea of action is so familiar to us that a definition may as easily obscure as explain it. Some Schoolmen, however, attempt to...

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  • ABATEMENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ABATEMENT

    in Heraldry, something added to a Coat-Armour to diminish its proper Value and Dignity, and note some dishonourable Action, or Stain in the Character of the Person who bears it. See ARMS. 'Tis a little controverted among Authors, whether Heraldry allows...

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

    ACCELERATION, in Mechanicks, the Increase of Velocity in a moving Body. See Velocity, and Accelerated Motion. Deceleration stands directly opposed to Retardation, whichdenotes a Diminution of Velocity. See Retardation. Acceleration is chiefly used in...

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  • ACCIDENTALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ACCIDENTAL

    ACCIDENTAL means something of the nature of an accident, or that is not essential to its subject but indifferent thereto. See Accident and Essential. Thus, whiteness is accidental to marble, and heat to iron. Accidental point, in perspective, is a...

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  • COUNTER-POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/COUNTER-POINT

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  • RADIAL-POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/RADIAL-POINT

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  • GAUGE-Pointhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/GAUGE-Point

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  • BASE-POINThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/BASE-POINT

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  • ABASEDhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/rhetoric/heraldry/ABASED

    toward the Point of the Shield ; or when the Wings are shut: The natural way of bearing 'em being spread, with the Tip pointing to the Chies, or the Angles. See VOL. A Chevron, a Pale, Bend, &c. are also said to be abased when their Points terminate in,...

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  • ADEQUATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADEQUATE

    ADEQUATE, Adequate, something equal to, or coextensivewith, another; and filling the whole measureand capacity thereof. See EQUALITY. In this sense, the word stands opposed to Inadequate.See INADEQUATE. Adequate Ideas or Notions are such images or...

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  • ADMIRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ADMIRATION

    ADMIRATION, in Grammar, a Point or Character, intimatingsomething worthy to be admired or wondered at.—It is expressed thus (!). See Character. ADMIRATION

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  • AECHMALOTARCHAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AECHMALOTARCHA

    AECHMALOTARCHA, in Antiquity, a Greek Term, signifying, Chief or Leader of the Captives. The Jews who refused to follow Zerubbabel, and return with him to Jerusalem, after the Babylonish Captivity; created an Aechmalotarcha, to govern them.—Not that the...

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

    or ABBAT, the Chief, or Superior of an Abbey, of the Male Kind. See ABBEY, and ABBESS. The Name Abbot is originally Hebrew, where it signifies Father. The Jews call Father in their Language Ab ; whence the Chaldees and Syrians form'd Abba ; and thence...

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