† magˈnetify, v. Obs.
[f. magnet + -ify.]
trans. = magnetize. Hence magˈnetified ppl. a.
| 1650 Charleton Paradoxes Prol. 2 Like the Aguish magnetified Needle, reels to and fro. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) X. 450/1 Several persons in a higher sphere of life were magnetified and felt nothing. Ibid. XVIII. 621/1 The south pole of a small magnetified needle. |