Contents
-AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class II. Words Relating to Space
Section IV. Motion
4. Motion with Reference to Direction
288. [Motion Towards, Actively.] Attraction.
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NOUN: | ATTRACTION, attractiveness; attractivity; pull, drawing to, pulling towards, attrahent, adduction, magnetism, gravity, attraction of gravitation. LOADSTONE or lodestone, lodestar or loadstar, polestar, lode [archaic]; magnet, magnetite, siderite. LURE, bait, charm, decoy.
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VERB: | ATTRACT, adduct; draw -, pull -, drag- towards; pull, draw, magnetize, bait, trap, decoy, charm; adduce.
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ADJECTIVE: | ATTRACTING &c. v.; attrahent, attractive, adducent, adductive.
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QUOTATIONS: | - Ubi mel ibi apes.—Plautus
- The cynosure of neighboring eyes.—Milton
- And Beauty draws us by a single hair.—Pope
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