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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

... is such a witch that she could have magnetized the Emperor Napoleon; she could magnetize a man more difficult to influence—you yourself," replied Rastignac, ...

— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac

... direction—it is almost like combing tangled hair to stroke a needle over a magnet. Then the molecules are arranged more as shown in Figure 108. When all the molecules, each of which is a tiny magnet, pull in the same direction, they make a strong magnet, and they magnetize any iron that comes near them just as ...

— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne

... 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)