Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Matter reduced to powder by attrition. Carlyle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Matter pulverized by attrition.
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Examples
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Elsewhere in Ovid, the only form found of _atterere_ is _attritus_: this circumstance perhaps contributed to the corruption of the present passage.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Attrition or Imperfect Contrition (Lat. attero, "to wear away by rubbing"; p.part. attritus).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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What a difference beneath this superficial similarity -- [Greek: kalos nekus oia katheudôn] -- _attritus ægrâ macie_.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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What a difference beneath this superficial similarity -- [Greek: kalos nekus oia katheudôn] -- _attritus ægrâ macie_.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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World is all decayed down into due attritus of this sort; and shall now be exploded, and new-made!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Denique attritus in hoc morbo Taro per flimulantia vulgaria intenditur,, xjxim haec iaepe iiociva comperta fint.
A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill 1781
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And Fulgura, et attritus fubita face rumpitur aether.
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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