coition
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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 W. James King
Dogmat. xiv that "the rational soul is not engendered by coition."
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
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 Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
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 William Gilbert
Objection 1: It would seem that generation by coition would not have existed in the state of innocence.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
