magnetizer

English

Etymology

magnetize +‎ -er

Noun

magnetizer (plural magnetizers)

  1. One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.
  2. (historical) A practitioner of animal magnetism; a hypnotist.
    • 1845, Bagg on Magnetism: Or the Doctrine of Equilibrium
      Many times a whole audience will not only be crowded into a small room, but are noisy disbelievers, call it all a humbug, distract the mind of the magnetizer, and added to these, absolutely outwill the magnetizer, in their wish to bring odium upon the science, and carry their points and gain their ends.
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