attrahent

Etymology
From, the stem of the , the present active participle of , on whose perfect passive participial stem the English verb is modelled.

Adjective

 * 1) That attracts; drawing, attracting.

Noun

 * 1) An attrahent ; something that attracts.
 * 2) * 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica, or Confest Ignorance the Way to Science (2nd ed. of The Vanity of Dogmatizing, 1661), chapter 15, page 127
 * The motion of steel to its attrahent.