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n. A mutual touching or handling.

n. In civil law, such handling and removing of goods as will amount to theft if they are not restored to their original place.

"In the third place, the two processes, contrectation and detumescence, may occur simultaneously, without the detumescence being associated with the object of the contrectation impulse."

detumescence    tumescence    incontrollable    hybridity    pettier