magnetizer
Noun
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Noun
magnetizer (plural magnetizers)
- (now, historical) A practitioner of animal magnetism; a hypnotist. [from 18th c.]
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 225:
- From these delusions to those still more fashionable deceptions, practised by the whole tribe of magnetisers, the transition is very natural.
- 1845, Bagg on Magnetism: Or the Doctrine of Equilibrium:
- 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 ends.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Penguin 2004, p. 225:
- Someone or something that imparts magnetism. [from 19th c.]
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