Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lifting up; raising: as, an attollent muscle.
- noun A muscle which raises some part, as the ear; a levator; an attollens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Lifting up; raising.
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- adjective obsolete Lifting up; raising.
Etymologies
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Latin attollens, present participle of attollere; ad + tollere to lift.
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