The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

The Chambers Biographical Dictionary mistakenly gives his year of birth as 939.

Little is known of the family with certainty ; the Chambers Biographical Dictionary records that they arrived in Spain in the 8th century but the name is familiar from the romance by Ginés Perez de Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment to which the former were subjected.

André Le Breton, a bookseller and printer, approached Diderot with a project for the publication of a translation of Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences into French, first undertaken by the Englishman John Mills, and followed by the German Gottfried Sellius.

However, Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ( 1728 ), and the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D ' Alembert ( 1751 onwards ), as well as Encyclopædia Britannica and the Conversations-Lexikon, were the first to realize the form we would recognize today, with a comprehensive scope of topics, discussed in depth and organized in an accessible, systematic method.

Chambers, in 1728, followed the earlier lead of John Harris's Lexicon Technicum of 1704 and later editions ( see also below ); this work was by its title and content " A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves ".

The Chambers Biographical Dictionary says of him that after Dr James Gregory's death, he was " recognized as the first consulting physician in Scotland ".

( The Chambers Biographical Dictionary gives his year of birth erroneusly as 1725.

The Chambers Biographical Dictionary ( 1897 ) incorrectly ascribes denial of the virgin birth to Ferenc Dávid, leader of the Transylvanian Unitarians.

Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Revised Edition.

In an introduction to a new edition of Chambers Dictionary in August 2008 Paxman labelled the work of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns as " sentimental doggerel.

The latest edition ( 2008 ) of the Chambers Dictionary defines a fulham as ' a die loaded at the corner to ensure that certain numbers are thrown ( also full ' am or full ' an ).

Chambers Dictionary of Science and Technology.

* The Chambers Dictionary

* Chambers Dictionary of World History edited by Bruce Lenman, ISBN 0-550-13000-4

* Chambers Biographical Dictionary ( 1990 ), as General Editor, ISBN 0-550-16040 X Hardback

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The Chambers Biographical Dictionary says of him that " he was regarded as the father of 19th century German landscape painting.

The Chambers Dictionary ( TCD ) was first published by W. and R. Chambers as Chambers's English Dictionary in 1872.

Classmate and friend Whittaker Chambers mentions him in his 1952 autobiography, Witness.

* In the novel American Psycho, Patrick Bateman mentions trying to start a defense fund for Chambers.

The exhaustive article in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th edition ( 1910 ) on encyclopædias mentions Rees's involvement with the editing of the original Chambers, but ignores completely the later work.

Early English Lyrics by Chambers and Sidgwick, published in 1926, mentions a broadside of 1710 with a version of the carol which begins

In recent years local contemporary country music, featuring much crossover with popular music, has enjoyed considerable popularity in Australia ; notable musicians of this genre include David Hudson, John Williamson, Gina Jeffreys, Lee Kernaghan, Troy Cassar-Daley, Sara Storer, Felicity Urquhart and Kasey Chambers.

The contemporary children's author Aidan Chambers calls him " notoriously little read by children and much read by adults ", essentially an observer and watcher.

Later, in 1772, Chambers published his Dissertation on Oriental Gardening, a rather fanciful elaboration of contemporary ideas about the naturalistic style of gardening in China.

He subscribed to many architectural pattern books, including those of his friend George Richardson, and also contemporary publications by Robert Morris and William Chambers.

The earliest usage of the term ' scientific romance ' is thought to be in 1845, by critics describing Robert Chambers ' Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, a speculative natural history published in 1844, and was used again in 1851 by the Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal and Literary Review in reference to Thoman Hunt's Panthea, or the Spirit of Nature.

According to her, this usage and the appearance of other distinctive names from Chambers ' work dated from her own youthful fascination with The King in Yellow and her ambitions to produce her own reconstruction of the play on the basis of the fragments in Chambers ' works.

Alan Chambers, the president of Exodus, says the term incorrectly implies a complete change in sexual orientation, though the group Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays continues to use the term.

While leading advocates of local independent business such as the American Independent Business Alliance say the term should apply only to locally-owned independent businesses, some campaigns run by governments and Chambers of Commerce consider local to be merely a geographic consideration.

The scene the term describes began in 1960, when Yoko Ono — one of the Fluxus artists, at that time still seven years away from meeting John Lennon — opened her loft at 112 Chambers Street to be used as a noise music performance space for a series curated by La Monte Young and Richard Maxfield.

The term was also one of the new entrants into the Chambers Dictionary in 2008, along with words like electrosmog, carbon footprint, credit crunch and social networking.

" Whittaker Chambers used the term in a satirical 1941 article for TIME Magazine: " As the Red Express hooted off into the shades of a closing decade, ex-fellow travelers rubbed their bruises, wondered how they had ever come to get aboard ... With the exception of Granville Hicks, probably none of these people was a Communist.

Chambers was released from Auburn Prison on February 14, 2003, after having served the entirety of his prison term due to his numerous infractions.

The 2006 editions of The Chambers Dictionary ( TCD ) define the term shooting-brake as an archaic term for estate, or station wagon.

The Black Chambers survived through to the Twentieth Century in a variety of guises and inspired similar organisations in other countries, such as the " Secret Office " of the British Post Office, and it is within this historical framework that Yardley uses the term.

On a local level, 308 Municipal Chambers and Municipal Assemblies and more than 4000 Parish Assemblies are elected for a four-year term in separate elections that usually occur on the same day.

J. K. " Jack " Chambers ( born 12 July 1938 in Grimsby, Ontario ) is a Canadian linguist, and a well-known expert on language variation and change, who pioneered research on Canadian English and coined the term " Canadian raising.

Writers who subsequently picked up the term have included Whittaker Chambers, Clark Kerr, David Edgar, William F. Buckley, Jr., and Norman Podhoretz.

Due to popular belief outside of Germany, fecal pornography known as " Scheisse porn " ( using the German slang word for faeces ) or, more commonly, as " Kaviar " ( a generic term ) supposedly is particularly popular in Germany, with companies like SG-Video and performers like Austrian Veronica Moser or English Ben Chambers specializing in the concept.