attollent

English

Etymology

From Latin attollens, present participle of attollo; ad + tollo (“to lift”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /əˈtɒlənt/

Adjective

attollent (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Lifting up; raising.
    • 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:
      And here I might instance the peculiar and artificial structure of the trochlearis, and the augmentation of its power by the trochlea; the magnitude and strength of the attollent muscle, somewhat exceeding that of its antagonist

Noun

attollent (plural attollents)

  1. (obsolete) A raising or lifting muscle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “attollent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

attollent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of attollō
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