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Definition of Chambers
1. Noun. English architect (1723-1796).
Definition of Chambers
1. Proper noun. (surname) ¹
2. Noun. (plural of chamber) ¹
3. Noun. (legal) A judge's private office. ¹
4. Noun. (UK legal) The rooms used by a barrister or to an association of barristers. ¹
5. Verb. (third-person singular of chamber) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chambers
1. chamber [v] - See also: chamber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chambers
Literary usage of Chambers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"In the ideal university of St. Andrews which Johnson and Boswell founded in their
imagination, the chair of English law was assigned to chambers, ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1883)
"chambers give notice that " the only authentic edition of their ... This edition
of chambers' Encyclopaedia being thoroughly revised and corrected down to ..."
3. The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as by Francis Henry Egerton Bridgewater (1836)
"Longitudinal Section of Nautilus Striatus, from the Lias at Whitby, in the
collection of Mrs. Murchison. The interior of the chambers is filled exclusively ..."
4. The Bookman (1911)
"chambers'S "AILSA PAIGE"* In Mr. chambers other and inferior dispensers of polite
fiction may behold an example of prodigality, opposed to sneaking maxims ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"(chambers.) While \vc are willing to admit that there is something thoroughly
exciting in studying the public history of States—their wars, revolutions, ..."
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