alliciency

English

Noun

alliciency (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) the power to attract; attractiveness; draw
    • 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
      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;

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