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

The variation and direction arise from the disponent power of the earth, and from the natural magnetick tendency to rotation, not from attraction, or from coition, or from other occult cause.

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

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

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

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