attollent

From Latin attollens, present participle of attollo; ad + tollo (“to lift”).

• IPA^(key): /əˈtɒlənt/

attollent (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Lifting up, raising (said of muscles, especially the levator palpebrae superioris ).
   • 1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:

     And here I might instance the peculiar and artificial structure of the trochlearis, and the augmentation of its power by the trochlea; the magnitude and strength of the attollent muscle, somewhat exceeding that of its antagonist

attollent (plural attollents)

1. (obsolete) A raising or lifting muscle.

• “attollent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

attollent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of attollō