coition
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The motions of disjoined magnetical parts of the Earth, besides the motion of aggregation, are coition, revolution, and the direction of the parts to the whole, for harmony of form, and concordancy.
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
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
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
For, if ever there is talk about magnetick attraction, we understand thereby magnetick coition, or a primary running together.
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
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 William Gilbert
