Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
magnetic . - Exhaling or drawing out.
- noun A substance that has magnetic properties; a magnetic.
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- adjective obsolete Pertaining to the
magnet ; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties;magnetic . - adjective Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the
Earth 'smagnetism . - adjective Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism.
- adjective Having, susceptible to, or induced by,
animal magnetism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You can do an experiment in which you check whether gravitional fields influence the shape of a magnetical field.
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In the monument of King Childerick the iron relicks were found all rusty and crumbling into pieces; but our little iron pins, which fastened the ivory works, held well together, and lost not their magnetical quality, though wanting a tenacious moisture for the firmer union of parts; although it be hardly drawn into fusion, yet that metal soon submitteth unto rust and dissolution.
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Marsilius Ficinus; or a magnetical meridian, as Maurolieus;
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Euripes, and a great rock of loadstones, which may cause the needle in the compass still to bend that way, and what should be the true cause of the variation of the compass, [2998] is it a magnetical rock, or the pole-star, as Cardan will; or some other star in the bear, as
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And though some condemn their skill and magnetical cures as tending to magical superstition, witchery, charms, &c., yet they admire, stiffly vindicate nevertheless, and infinitely prefer them.
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Polus 'lies, correct those errors in navigation, reform cosmographical charts, and rectify longitudes, if it were possible; not by the compass, as some dream, with Mark Ridley in his treatise of magnetical bodies, cap.
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“Iron is susceptible of magnetical impressions,” is of co-existence.
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Hence the lieutenant concluded, that it had been influenced by iron ore, or by some other magnetical matter contained under the surface of the earth.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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Hence the lieutenant concluded, that it had been influenced by iron ore, or by some other magnetical matter contained under the surface of the earth.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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The machine generates electrical power in the stator coils by a rotating magnetical field which is generally produced by a DC magnet.
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