alliciency

English

Noun

alliciency (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) the power to attract; attractiveness; draw
   • 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

     Now if these Magneticall emissions be only qualities, and the gravity of bodies incline them only unto earth; surely that which moveth other bodies to descent carrieth not the stroak in this, but rather the Magneticall alliciency of the earth;

References

• “alliciency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.