In Otto von Guericke's Experimenta Nova (1672) he says (in reference to experiments showing how a feather floats above and sometimes is reattracted to a globe of sulphur):
- Filum lineum, si acumini ligni acuminati, inque mensâ vel scamno firmati inhærescere facias, atque filum ulnâ longius demittas, ita quidem, ut infra ibi aliud quid, spatio pollicarir emotius, attingere possit, (Quoties scil. globus excitatus, summitati hujus ligni admoveatur) inferius fili cum iuxta apposito, conjungi: Quo ad oculos demonstrandum, hanc virtutem in filo lineo usque ad partes infimas se extendisse, dum hoc, aut attrahit aut seipsum alligat.
Source. (Emphasis mine.)
I believe emotius is the comparison form of ēmōtus (ppl from ēmōvēre), and since ulna is nearby, I thought pollicarir might be related to pollex (thumb), but I couldn't find another usage. What does this part of the paragraph mean?