Attractive
(At*tract"ive) a. [Cf. F. attractif.]
1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton.
2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive
graces." Milton. "Attractive eyes." Thackeray.
Flowers of a livid yellow, or fleshy color, are most attractive to flies.
Lubbock.
— At*tract"ive*ly, adv. — At*tract"ive*ness, n.
Attractive
(At*tract"ive), n. That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.
Speaks nothing but attractives and invitation.
South.
Attractivity
(At`trac*tiv"i*ty) n. The quality or degree of attractive power.
Attractor
(At*tract"or) n. One who, or that which, attracts. Sir T. Browne
Attrahent
(At"tra*hent) a. [L. attrahens, p. pr. of attrahere. See Attract, v. t.] Attracting; drawing; attractive.
Attrahent
(At"tra*hent), n.
1. That which attracts, as a magnet.
The motion of the steel to its attrahent
. Glanvill. 2. (Med.) A substance which, by irritating the surface, excites action in the part to which it is applied,
as a blister, an epispastic, a sinapism.
Attrap
(At*trap") v. t. [F. attraper to catch; à (L. ad) + trappe trap. See Trap (for taking game).] To
entrap; to insnare. [Obs.] Grafton.
Attrap
(At*trap"), v. t. [Pref. ad + trap to adorn.] To adorn with trapping; to array. [Obs.]
Shall your horse be attrapped . . . more richly?
Holland.
Attrectation
(At`trec*ta"tion) n. [L. attrectatio; ad + tractare to handle.] Frequent handling or touching.
[Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Attributable
(At*trib"u*ta*ble) a. Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.
Errors . . . attributable to carelessness.
J. D. Hooker.
Attribute
(At*trib"ute) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attributed; p. pr. & vb. n. Attributing.] [L. attributus, p. p.
of attribuere; ad + tribuere to bestow. See Tribute.] To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or
appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging
We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
Abp. Tillotson.
The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.
Shak.
Syn. — See Ascribe.
Attribute
(At"tri*bute) n. [L. attributum.]
