attrahent

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UK/ˈætɹəhənt/

adjective

That attracts; drawing, attracting.

OriginLatin attrahēns →
Scrabble 12
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Meanings

adjectiveattrahent (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThat attracts; drawing, attracting.

    The humours, which easily follow the attrahent medicament.

    1661, Robert Lovell, A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page 518
nounattrahent (plural attrahents)

plural attrahents

  1. An attrahent agent; something that attracts.

    The motion of steel to its attrahent.

    1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica, or Confest Ignorance the Way to Science (2nd ed. of The Vanity of Dogmatizing, 1661), chapter 15, page 127
    1 more example

    Attrahents are the same with what we otherwise call drawers, ripeners, maturantia, etc.

    1786, Ephraim Chambers, “Rees”, in Cyclopædia; or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

Origin

  1. Latinattrahēns“drawing, pulling, or dragging to or toward with force”; “drawing”, “alluring”, “leading”, “bringing”, “moving”, “attracting”
  2. Englishattrahent

From attrahent-, the stem of the Latin attrahēns (“drawing, pulling, or dragging to or toward with force”; “drawing”, “alluring”, “leading”, “bringing”, “moving”, “attracting”), the present active participle of attrahō (“to draw, pull, or drag to or toward with force”; “to draw, allure, lead, bring, move, attract”), on whose perfect passive participial stem the English verb attract is modelled.

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