coition

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Union with an armed Loadstone is stronger; hence greater weights are raised; but the coition is not stronger, but generally weaker.

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

Enoch was conveyed, who was begotten by coition, and who begot by coition.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

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

Dogmat. xiv that "the rational soul is not engendered by coition."

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint