English Dictionary

contaction

名詞

廃用 不可算名詞

(obsolete) An act of touching.

日本語の意味

接触、触れる行為

In the lecture, the philologist quoted an old dictionary entry defining contaction as the brief touch exchanged during greetings.

講義で語源学者は辞書の古い記述を引用し、挨拶の際に交わされる短い触れ合いを指すと説明した。

意味（1）

(obsolete) An act of touching.

For the act of laughter, which is evidenced by a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely voluntary, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves, but, as it may be constrained by corporal contaction in any, and hath been enforced in some even in their death, so the new, unusual, or unexpected, jucundities which present themselves to any man in his life, at some time or other, will have activity enough to excitate the earthiest soul, and raise a smile from the most composed tempers.