ppl. a. [f. ATTRACT v. + -ED.] Drawn to or towards (the agent), drawn in or up. (In various senses of the vb.)
1610. Gwillim, Heraldry, III. v. (1660), 119. A certain attracted fume drawne up on high by the operation of the Sunne.
1656. trans. Hobbes’ Elem. Philos., 1839. Breath, that is to say attracted air.
1809. Crabbe, Tales, 37. Like all attracted things, he quicker flies, The place approaching where the attraction lies.
1856. Tyndall, Fragm. Sc. (1871), I. xiii. 374. The attracted end of the needle.
