Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Attract

Attract ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Latin attractus, past participle of attrahere; ad + trahere to draw. See Trace, transitive verb]

1.
To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.
All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another. — Derham
2.
To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers.
Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. — Milton

Attract , noun

Attraction. [Obsolete] — Hudibras