Now the Heat of the Body depending in a great Measure on the Attrition of the Particles against each other, this being diminish'd in the Extream Parts of the Body, the other must be lessen'd in Proportion.
She possessed fortunately one of Brunton's 70 fathom chain cables, which held good all the time, but it was found afterwards to have had the links of its lower portion polished bright by attrition against the rocky bottom.
They are finally dried in the wooden cask by attrition with sawdust; then wiped individually with a linen rag or soft leather; when the damaged ones are thrown aside.
No carbon can be created in the process of ultimate analysis by pure peroxide of copper such as I employed; and I repeated the ignition after attrition of the mixture used in the experiment.
The see-saw motion forces the rouleaux to turn upon their own axes, and thereby creates such attrition among their contents as to polish them.
Secular knowledge had suffered so much from attrition and decay that it could now be summarized in its entirety by one man.
When we think we are thinking, we are for the most part only listening to sound of attrition between these inert elements of intelligence.
His black coat shines as if it had been polished; and it has been polished on the wearer's back, no doubt, for the arms and other points of maximum attrition are particularly smooth and bright.
The author may arrange the gems effectively, but their fhape and luftre have been given by the attrition of ages.
The continualattrition of multitudinous grains of sand from the desert.
Do they engrave deeper the loved face carven on the tablets of memory, which the attrition of worldly cares is ever obliterating, and the lichens of worldly thoughts ever filling up?
But the process of attrition has not made the progress the Germans hoped for.
Their Fleet, while the process of attrition was going on, was to remain sheltered in the unreachable fastnesses of the Kiel Canal.
The policy of attrition has failed lamentably, and we are not yet starved out by the submarines or greatly perturbed by the threats of new "frightfulness" which periodically emanate from Berlin.
Colonel Shapley reported losses of 110 percent in the 4th Marines, which reflected both the addition of replacements and their high attrition after joining.
This proclamation may well have been in response to the growing criticism Buckner had been receiving from the Navy and some of the media for his time-consuming attrition strategy.
The exhilarating, fast-paced opening of the campaign had been replaced by week after week of costly, exhausting, attrition warfare against the Shuri complex.
By mid-April, the Tenth Army had decided to wage a campaign of massive firepower and attrition against the main Japanese defenses.
Attrition without the possibility of surprise or mobility is a mere “push of pikes,” it is a muscular but brainless operation.
The marks left by the attrition of the surface give an approximate idea of the age of the animal.
There is apparently no limit to the growth of tusks, so that under favourable circumstances they might attain enormous dimensions, owing to the age of the animal, and absence of the attrition which keeps the incisors of rodents down.
A person who is justified through attrition joined with a Sacrament receives grace and the habit of charity, and by his voluntary acceptance he consents to the divine friendship and thus makes an act of charity.
Must attrition based on fear of punishment be joined with love of God to justify in the Sacrament?
Hence, just as attrition must be accompanied by faith and hope, so it must also be accompanied by some form of love of God (2718).
By his sin the sinner preferred the creature to God; by his attrition he does not go so far as to prefer God positively to every created good, else his contrition would be perfect.
Servile fear of God in itself is good and supernatural (1050), and the sorrow for sin or attrition based on such fear is also good; and if it includes a resolution of amendment, it suffices for justification with the Sacraments.
An unbaptized person of good will who has supernatural contrition or charity is justified through Baptism of desire, but if he has only supernatural attrition the Sacrament itself is necessary for him.
Is Attrition Based Solely on Fear of Punishment Laudable?
As is proved in Dogmatic Theology, Baptism may be supplied for, as regards grace, by martyrdom in an infant and by martyrdom joined with attrition in an adult.
In other words, the prevalent view is that every attrition prompted by fear of punishment contains an initial love of God which suffices to turn the sinner to God and to remove any obstacle to the action of the Sacrament.
Fire for sacrificial purposes is produced by the attritionof two pieces of wood.
Fire for sacred purposes is produced by the attrition of two pieces of wood.
Much better evidence of the attrition of hard objects in the gizzards of worms, is afforded by the state of the small fragments of tiles or bricks, and of concrete in the castings thrown up where ancient buildings once stood.
So that unless the same fragments were to pass repeatedly through their gizzards, visible signs of attrition in the fragments could hardly be expected, except perhaps in the case of very soft stones.
The concretions found in the intestines and in the castings often have a worn appearance, but whether this is due to some amount of attrition or of chemical corrosion could not be told.
The phosphoric substances, which become luminous by attrition or percussion, are numerous.
The wheels of a machine, to play rapidly, must not fit with the utmost exactness, else the attrition diminishes the impetus.
The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.
The point, which is usually brought to a semicircular sharp edge, has been broken in old times either by use or by attrition in the gravel.
Most of these substances are easily fusible, and have apparently been derived either from volcanoes still in quiet action, or from the attrition of volcanic products.
The trituration is effected by revolving the stone in a large cylinder together with a number of steel balls of various sizes, the attrition of which with the rock quickly grinds it to powder of any required degree of fineness.
Down there in the spring are shells, finely polished by the attrition of the waters.
Every great river and deep valley gives evidence of the attrition of the land.
Sand is separated by streams and currents, gravel is formed by theattrition of stones agitated in water, and argillaceous strata are deposited by water containing argillaceous material.
If we could measure the rate of the attrition of the present continents, we might estimate the duration of the older continents whose attrition supplied the material for the present dry land.
It grinds men down by slowattrition to a common likeness.
Quite different has been the result of the attrition between grains in the transportation and deposition of sediments, for it is characteristic of the sedimentary rocks that their constituent grains are well rounded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attrition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
