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attractive, a. and n.|əˈtræktɪv|
Also 7 attrective.
[a. F. attractif, -ive (14th c.), cogn. with Pr. atractiu, It. attrattivo, f. as if repr. L. *attractīvus, f. attract-: see attract v. and -ive.]
A. adj. Having the attribute of attracting; apt or tending to attract.
†1. Having the attribute of drawing or sucking in; absorptive. Obs.
1540[see attract v. 1]. 1620Venner Via Recta viii. 192 By debilitie of the digestiue facultie, or of the Attractiue. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. v, This attractive power is very necessary in plants, which suck up moisture by the root. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 91 Vapours Which..rise In Clouds to the attractive Brain.
†2. Med. Having the property of ‘drawing’ matter or humours. Obs.
1547Boorde Brev. Health xlvii. 22 b, For aches and peyne in the armes use seare clothes that be attractyve. 1597J. T. Serm. Paules Crosse 46 A sore bitten with a venemous beast, can not be healed, except by an attractiue medicine. 1608Topsell Serpents 630 Drawing or attractive plaisters. 1786Chambers Cycl. (Rees), Attractives, or attractive remedies..which are to be externally applied.
†3. Having the property of drawing to itself by contact. Obs.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 81 The tongue of a Cat is very attractive and forcible like a file, attenuating by licking the flesh of a man.
4. Having the property of drawing to itself by some physical force bodies not materially attached to it; of the nature of attraction.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1337 There is not in that voidnesse any puissance attractive of bodies. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 527 The attractive power of the loadstone. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. ii. 466 It feels th' attractive Earth's Magnetick Force. 1794Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXXV. 46 Sir Isaac Newton has shewn that the sun, by its attractive power, retains the planets of our system in their orbits. 1879Prescott Sp. Telephone 67 The intensity of the attractive impulses.
b. fig. Drawing as by magnetic influence.
1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 117 Here's Mettle more attractiue. 1642Bp. Andrewes Pattern Cath. Doctr. 109 Love is the lode-stone attractive of love.
5. Having the quality of drawing (living beings) by influencing their will and action.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. ii. 91 She hath blessed and attractiue eyes. 1601Holland Pliny Ep. Vespas., Although your gentlenesse and humanitie be one way attrective, and induceth me to draw neare unto your presence. 1730Southall Buggs 32 My Liquor has an attractive as well as the destructive Quality, and thereby does bring out and destroy every live Bugg. 1862Mill Utilit. 60 The repelling influence of pain as well as the attractive one of pleasure.
6. Having the quality of attracting attention, interest, affection, or other pleasurable emotion; interesting, engaging, pleasing, winning, alluring. (Now the most frequent use.)
1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 389 By his attractiue vertues..confirmed to him the hearts of all his Subiects. 1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentl. (1641) 410/2 Decency, the attractivest motive of affection. 1817Scott Rob Roy i, Interesting and attractive for those who love to hear an old man's stories of a past age. 1859Sat. Rev. 23 July 103 It tells it in a style almost as attractive as a novel. 1878Ouida Friendship I. 85 ‘Do you think her attractive?’ ‘No, not at all.’
B. n.
†1. Med. A ‘drawing’ medicament. Obs.
1607Topsell Serpents 619 The safest way..to cure the poyson, is by attractives. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physic 288 Set Cupping glasses to it; also other Attractives. 1786[see A 2].
†2. That which draws like a magnet. Also fig.
1581R. Norman (title) The new Attractive, containing a short Discourse of the Magnet or Loadstone, now first found out. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. (1736) 267 The impiety of men is the forcible attractive of God's vengeance. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vii. 359 That powerful attractive which by a strong and divine sympathy draws down the virtue of heaven into the souls of men.
†3. A thing or circumstance which attracts attention, or interest, or draws people to see it; an ‘attraction.’ Obs.
1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iii. iii. 34 And, then, the dressing Is a most maine attractive! 1765Doddridge in Mem. viii. §4. (1823) 221 God has removed so powerful an attractive from earth.
†4. A quality that attracts morally or through pleasurable emotions; esp. an attractive personal quality. Obs. (A very favourite word in the 17th and 18th centuries; now replaced by attraction.)
1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. in Harl. Misc. (1793) 187 He had very fine attractives, as being a good piece of a scholar. 1706Collier Refl. Ridic. 194 The Women that are caught by these Attractives, must be very silly. 1712Steele Spect. No. 302 ⁋4 The attractives of her Beauty. a1805Beddome Disc. in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxiii. 8 The powerful attractives of divine grace. |