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Webster 1828 Edition

Magnetism

MAG'NETISM

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Noun.
That branch of science which treats of the properties of the magnet, the power of the lodestone, &c.
1.
Power of attraction; as the magnetism of interest.
Animal magnetism, a sympathy supposed to exist between the magnet and the human body, by means of which the magnet is said to be able to cure diseases; or a fluid supposed to exist throughout nature, and to be the medium of influence between celestial bodies, and the earth and human bodies.

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