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magnes
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n. (obsolete form of magnet English)
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In Greek mythology , Magnes was a name attributed to two men. Magnes , son of Zeus and Thyia , daughter of Deucalion , or of Aeolus and Enarete , or of Argus (son of Phrixus ) and Perimele , eponym and first king of Magnesia , and brother of Makednos . ...
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Magnes \Mag"nes\, n. [L.] Magnet. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Usage examples of magnes.
And in the last days of summer, 1911, two families from Ottumwa reported to the station for the journey west: Earl and Alice Grebe and a crafty older pair already familiar with emigration, Magnes and Vesta Volkema, accompanied by their two teen-age children.
One of these days Magnes and I will be heading for California, and who knows?
Yet we possess fragments in Lactantius, Augustine, Macarius Magnes and others, which attest how thoroughly Porphyry studied the Christian writings and how great his faculty was for true historical criticism.
A Greek legend relates how a shepherd named Magnes found that his crook was attracted by a strange rock.
Dinocrates, who set about building a temple to Diana in which, by means of Magnes stones, a statue of that goddess would be suspended in midair.
And in the last days of summer, 1911, two families from Ottumwa reported to the station for the journey west: Earl and Alice Grebe and a crafty older pair already familiar with emigration, Magnes and Vesta Volkema, accompanied by their two teen-age children.