coition

Example Sentences

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On the Magnetick Coition, and first on the attraction of Amber, or more truly, on the attaching of bodies to Amber.

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

From this unnatural Coition sprung the Minotaur, a Monster half Man and half Bull, which was enclosed in a Labyrinth, and afterward destroyed by Theseus.

From The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love by Fielding, Henry

So he truly recognizes no magnetick motion except the Coition toward iron or loadstone, commonly called attraction.

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