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Webster 1913 Edition


Magnetiferous

Magˊnet-if′er-ous

,
Adj.
[L.
magnes
,
-etis
+
-ferous
.]
Producing or conducting magnetism.
2.
The science which treats of magnetic phenomena.
3.
Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.
“By the magnetism of interest our affections are irresistibly attracted.”
Glanvill.
Animal magnetism
,
Same as
hypnotism
, at one time believe to be due to a force more or less analogous to magnetism, which, it was alleged, is produced in animal tissues, and passes from one body to another with or without actual contact. The existence of such a force, and its potentiality for the cure of disease, were asserted by
Mesmer
in 1775. His theories and methods were afterwards called mesmerism, a name which has been popularly applied to theories and claims not put forward by Mesmer himself. See
Mesmerism
,
Biology
,
Od
,
Hypnotism
.
Terrestrial magnetism
,
the magnetic force exerted by the earth, and recognized by its effect upon magnetized needles and bars.

Webster 1828 Edition


Magnetiferous

MAGNETIF'EROUS

,
Adj.
Producing or conducting magnetism.

Definition 2024


magnetiferous

magnetiferous

English

Adjective

magnetiferous (comparative more magnetiferous, superlative most magnetiferous)

  1. (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism
    • 1989, Alberto Russo, Magnetic rotary locking and tensioning mechanism, US Patent 49745412, page 5:
      First, second and third base magnetiferous strips 70, 72 and 74 may be magnets. However, the inventor has found it more convenient to form these base magnetiferous strips of material that conducts magnetism and place between these strips two magnets 80, 82.
  2. (geology) Containing magnetite
    • 1910, William Shirley Bayley, Iron Mines and Mining in New Jersey, page 351:
      The ore is a richly magnetiferous Pochuck gneiss.
    • 1923, Josiah Edward Spur, The Ore Magmas, page 36:
      Observations by Ball and myself in Colorado show that in the case of magnetiferous granites, the magnetite was a mineral of the pegmatite stage.

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