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magnetizer

magnetizer noun: a practitioner of animal magnetism; a hypnotist.

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
    • Many times a whole audience will not only be crowded into a small room, but are noisy disbelievers, call it all a humbug, distract the mind of the magnetizer, and added to these, absolutely outwill the magnetizer, in their wish to bring odium upon the science, and carry their points and gain their...1845, Bagg on Magnetism: Or the Doctrine of Equilibrium
  2. Someone or something that imparts magnetism.

Forms of magnetizer

pluralmagnetizers

Origin of magnetizer

From magnetize + -er.

Questions about magnetizer

What does magnetizer mean?
Magnetizer means a practitioner of animal magnetism; a hypnotist.
What part of speech is magnetizer?
Magnetizer is a noun.
What is the plural of magnetizer?
The plural of magnetizer is magnetizers.

Words near magnetizer in the dictionary

  1. magnetizations
  2. magnetize
  3. magnetized
  4. magnetizee
  5. magnetizees
  6. magnetizer
  7. magnetizers
  8. magnetizes
  9. magnetizing
  10. magnetizing field
  11. magnetizing fields

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