arch. [a. OF. colluctacion, -tion, ad. L. colluctātiōn-em, n. of action f. colluctāri to contend together, f. col- together + luctāri to wrestle, strive.] A wrestling or struggling together; strife, conflict, opposition.
1611. R. Bolton, State of True Happiness (1614), 115. Struggling and colluctation with his owne corruptions.
a. 1631. Donne, Serm., i. 6. Colluctations between the flesh and the Spirit.
1668. Howe, Bless. Righteous (1825), 85. Any colluctation with contrary principles.
18[?]. Lamb, Charact. Dram. Writers, Marlowe, 527. Faustus’s last scene … is indeed an agony and a fearful colluctation.
b. transf. in Physics, of particles in motion.
1692. Ray, Dissol. World (1732), 259. The Colluctation of Parts after the manner of Fermentation.
1695. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Earth, III. (1723), 161. Hot-Springs, do not owe their Heat to any Colluctation or Effervescence of the Minerals in them.
1794. G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos., IV. xlix. 348. A vibratory colluctation takes place.
