attrahent

== English == === 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 (“to draw, pull, or drag to or toward with force”; “to draw, allure, lead, bring, move, attract”), on whose perfect passive participial stem the English verb attract is modelled. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ăʹtrəhənt, IPA(key): /ˈætɹəhənt/ === Adjective === attrahent (not comparable) That attracts; drawing, attracting. === Noun === attrahent (plural attrahents) An attrahent agent; something that attracts. 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. === References === “attrahent, a. and n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989] == Latin == === Verb === attrahent third-person plural future active indicative of attrahō