† magnetifyv.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. = magnetize v. 3a.
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1649 W. Charleton tr. J. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes 41 If a Magnet hath imprægnated and magnetified a gad of iron with its North side, it doth not, according to the law of its own propriety, dispose and incline that iron to the North, but to the South.
2. transitive. = magnetize v. 2.
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1785 T. Holcroft Choleric Fathers iii. 61 Stand where you are, young man; you shall be magnetified.
1797 Encycl. Brit. X. 450/1 Several persons in a higher sphere of life were magnetified and felt nothing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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