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magnetiser

magnetiser is the alternative form of magnetizer.

Meaning of magnetizer

Noun

magnetizer (plural magnetizers)

  1. (historical) A practitioner of animal magnetism; a hypnotist.
    • From these delusions to those still more fashionable deceptions, practised by the whole tribe of magnetisers, the transition is very natural.1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC
  2. Someone or something that imparts magnetism.

Forms of magnetiser

pluralmagnetisers

Origin of magnetiser

From magnetise + -er.

Questions about magnetiser

What is magnetiser the alternative form of?
Magnetiser is the alternative form of magnetizer.

Words near magnetiser in the dictionary

  1. magnetisable
  2. magnetisation
  3. magnetisations
  4. magnetise
  5. magnetised
  6. magnetiser
  7. magnetisers
  8. magnetises
  9. magnetising
  10. magnetism
  11. magnetism-based interaction capture

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