alliciency

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noun

the power to attract; attractiveness; draw

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounalliciency (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountablethe power to attract; attractiveness; draw

    Now if these Magneticall emissions be only qualities, and the gravity of bodies incline them only unto earth; surely that which moveth other bodies to descent carrieth not the stroak in this, but rather the Magneticall alliciency of the earth;

    1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
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