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Given the overall importance of the dynamo’s age, the discrepancies are worth sorting out, says Joseph Kirschvink, a magnetist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and a co-author on the rival study.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 30, 2015

The Fellerings, Mouzaive the magnetist, and Thyon Nero all needed laboratory space in which to unload the equipment they had brought with them from the west.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Neither am I a magnetist, properly so called, for there is no outgoing of magnetism from my body when I am healing.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, April 1887 Volume 1, Number 3 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

The magnetist who had attended, at our request—a pleasant gentlemanly person—made the usual passes along the arm, and O'Shaughnessy stood out in the attitude of the Pythian Apollo.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

"Prince," said the Duke, "Doctor Matheus is a famous magnetist, who has been serviceable to Marie already, and when you came in was about to subject her again to the influence of the fluid."

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various