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Magnetize v. t. (past & past part. magnetized; pres. part. magnetizing)

To communicate magnetic properties to; to make magnetic; as, to magnetize a needle.

To attract as a magnet attracts, or like a magnet; to move; to influence. "Fascinated, magnetized, as it were, by his character."

To bring under the influence of animal magnetism.

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Etymology of 'Magnetize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Magnetize" Quotes from Famous Books

... electric current having two courses open to it, will divide into two portions traversing the coil around each half of the ring from one point of contact to the other, and the direction of the current, in each portion will be such as to magnetize the iron core, so that its magnetic poles will be situated at the points where the current enters and leaves the helix, and a straight line joining these points may be looked upon as the magnetic axis of the system. From this construction it is clear ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 • Various

... in the hands of the wholesale professional dealers in misfortune; undertakers and jailers magnetize you in a moment, and you pass out of the individual life you were living into the rhythmical movements of their horrible machinery. Do the worst thing you can, or suffer the worst that can be thought of, you find yourself ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... explosion, like that of damp fireworks, that splutter and simmer a little, and then go out with painful slowness and occasional relapses. But his fuse is always of the unwillingest, and you must blow your match, and touch him off again and again with the same joke. Or rather, you must magnetize him many times to get him en rapport with a jest. This once accomplished, you have him, and one bit of fun will last the whole voyage. He prefers those of one syllable, the a-b abs of humor. The gradual fattening of the steward, a benevolent mulatto with whiskers and ear-rings, who looks as if ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various

... observing vision notes each emotional clew. Many unspoken queries find vocal reply. Delicate points are cleared by suggestive indirection. Neither completely yields to profitless conjecture. They magnetize Northfield. ...

— Oswald Langdon - or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 • Carson Jay Lee

... must have been known from the time that the compass came into use. To make this instrument it was necessary to magnetize a small bar or needle by passing a natural ...

— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb