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Webster 1913 Edition

Attrahent

At′tra-hent

,
Adj.
[L.
attrahens
, p. pr. of
attrahere
. See
Attract
,
Verb.
T.
]
Attracting; drawing; attractive.

At′tra-hent

,
Noun.
1.
That which attracts, as a magnet.
The motion of the steel to its
attrahent
Glanvill.
.
2.
(Med.)
A substance which, by irritating the surface, excites action in the part to which it is applied, as a blister, an epispastic, a sinapism.

Webster 1828 Edition

Attrahent

ATTRA'HENT

,
Adj.
[L. attrahens.] Drawing to; or as a noun, that which draws to.

Definition 2025

attrahent

attrahent

English

Adjective

attrahent ‎(not comparable)

  1. That attracts; drawing, attracting.
    • 1661, Robert Lovell, A Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page 518
      The humours, which easily follow the attrahent medicament.

Noun

attrahent ‎(plural attrahents)

  1. An attrahent agent.
    • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica, or Confest Ignorance the Way to Science (2nd ed. of The Vanity of Dogmatizing, 1661), chapter 15, page 127
      The motion of steel to its attrahent.
    • 1786, Ephraim Chambers, Cyclopædia; or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, “Rees”
      Attrahents are the same with what we otherwise call drawers, ripeners, maturantia, etc.

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Latin

Verb

attrahent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of attrahō

Etymology

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 ‎(“I draw, pull, or drag to or toward with force”; “I draw, allure, lead, bring, move, attract”), on whose perfect passive participial stem the English verb attract is modelled.

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