coition

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In particular, he distinguished electric attraction from magnetic coition, and pointed out the main features of electrical attraction.

From The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors by King, W. James

A determined Verticity and a disponent Faculty are what arrange magneticks, not a force, attracting them or pulling them together, nor merely a strongish coition or unition.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

The word Coitio, used by Gilbert for the mutual force between magnet and iron, has been retained in its English form, coition.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

Terrestrial and magnetick coition and motion, when corporeal impediments are interposed, is demonstrated also by the efficiencies of other chief bodies due to their primary form.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

Since it is an element, it has a motion natural to it, and this motion is magnetic coition.

From The Natural Philosophy of William Gilbert and His Predecessors by King, W. James