Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetician.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in magnetism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One versed in
magnetism ;magnetician .
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Examples
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Any competent magnetist or hypnotiser can throw off the spell in all cases of self-induced trance, unless it has reached the condition of complete catalepsy.
Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers William Walker Atkinson 1897
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Professor Smith, we found, lived in a cosy house in the main road, the parlours whereof he devoted to the purposes of a medical magnetist, which was his calling, as inscribed upon the wire blinds of the ground floor front.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869
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Neither am I a magnetist, properly so called, for there is no outgoing of magnetism from my body when I am healing.
Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 1856
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The ordinary magnetist admits that he cannot cure more than four persons per diem; I have cured as many as thirty, and beyond the weariness caused by standing, I have been no worse at the end than at beginning. "
Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 1856
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