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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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... 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 magnet ...

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

... straight magnet is called a bar magnet. Magnetize a sewing-needle. For some experiments a needle-magnet, as we may call it, is ...

— How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus • Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John

... substance which it is capable of vibrating. When using this telephone receiver, the disk is pressed to the ear in such a manner that its surface covers the aperture of the ear. When these telephone receivers are used on a line of some considerable length, the patentees prefer to magnetize the electro-magnet by a constant current from a local battery, and to effect the variation of this constant magnetization inductively and not directly. The electro-magnet is, then, not inserted in the line at all, but in the primary circuit of an induction coil, and connected with ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various

... 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

... of Fig. 106 the atoms in an unmagnetized piece of iron are pretty well satisfied to stay as they are without all lining up to pull together. To magnetize the iron we must force some of these atomic loops to turn part way around. That can be done by bringing near them a strong magnet or a coil of wire which is carrying a current. Then the atoms are ...

— Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son • John Mills