Obs. Also 7 attract-. (Attrection in Cockeram.) [ad. L. attrectātiōn-em, n. of action f. attrectā-re to touch, handle, f. at- = ad- to + tractāre to handle.] Touching, handling, feeling with the hands.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 237. What through the affluence of humours, what through attrectation.
1623. Cockeram, Attrection, a handling, or feeling.
1663. Flagellum or O. Cromwell (1672), 176. Which like the Philosophers Stone, or rather the Apples of Sodom, vanished and perished in the Attrectation.
