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- verb Present participle of
magnetise .
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Examples
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He asked if I had any experience in magnetising or reiki, and I admitted that I'm just an amateur.
about energy nathreee 2010
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Nothing but an absolute magnetising of her brain by Shelley's can account for her having risen so far about her usual self as in "Frankenstein."
Biography in the DNB 2010
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'Loves me?' cried Edgar, his arms involuntarily encircling him as he repeated the magnetising words: 'Ah! Dr. Marchmont, could she then thus grieve and defy me?
Camilla 2008
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He cannot help magnetising a crowd: he is commanding with a tall, handsome bearing; trusts and is trusted by the youth, for their impatience reflects his own; appealing to the women.
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When the patient is nearly exhausted with this rough magnetising, Obi brings out an old rusty nail, or a piece of bone, or an ass's tooth, or the jaw-bone of a rat, or a fragment of a quart bottle, from the part; and the patient is well the next day (1799 edn, 172).
Grave Dirt, Dried Toads, and the Blood of a Black Cat: How Aldridge Worked His Charms 2002
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All the time that these thoughts kept passing through my head I kept attentively regarding Varenika as she read, until somehow I felt as though I were magnetising her, and that presently she must look at me.
Youth 2003
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He cannot help magnetising a crowd: he is commanding with a tall, handsome bearing; trusts and is trusted by the youth, for their impatience reflects his own; appealing to the women.
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He cannot help magnetising a crowd: he is commanding with a tall, handsome bearing; trusts and is trusted by the youth, for their impatience reflects his own; appealing to the women.
OLIVER TAMBO 1980
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He cannot help magnetising a crowd: he is commanding with a tall, handsome bearing; trusts and is trusted by the youth, for their impatience reflects his own; appealing to the women.
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Substances so composed, of which magnets are an example, may be made the means of magnetising other substances by friction, without they themselves suffering any loss; but it is not all substances that will respond to the magnet.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones John Mastin
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