attrectation

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noun

Frequent handling or touching; fingering.

OriginLatin attrectatio →
Scrabble 14
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Meanings

nounattrectation (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableFrequent handling or touching; fingering.

    [S]ince that materiall part and exteriour actions of Religion could be acted and perſonated by any man, there was ſcarce any thing left to make it religious, but the attrectation of the rites by a holy perſon; […]

    1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section I”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 7, page 4

Origin

  1. Latinattrectatio
  2. Englishattrectation

From Latin attrectatio, from ad + tractare (“to handle”).

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