pulsion (pulshon)

[ How general and ancient soever the common opinion may be that attraction is a kind of motion quite differing from pulsion, if not also opposite to it, yet I confe I con with modern naturalists that cur in opinion think attraction a species of pulsion. Boyle , Cause of Attraction by Suction, i. The operation of nature is different from mechanism, it doing not its work by trusion or pulsion , by knockings or thrustings, as if it were without that which it wrought upon. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 156. pulsive (pul's iv), a. [ The pulsive strain of conscience. 2. Impulsive. Nares. Marston . In end my pulsive braine no art affoords To mint, or stamp, or forge new coyned words. John Taylor, Works (1630). pulverization