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mesmerism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mesmerism \Mes"mer*ism\, n. [From Mesmer, who first brought it into notice at Vienna, about 1775: cf. F. mesm['e]risme.] An earlier name for hypnosis or hypnotism, the art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. It is believed to be a state between sleep and wakefulness, in which a person is more susceptible to suggestion than when awake. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"hypnotism," 1802, from French mesmérisme, named for Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), Austrian physician who developed a theory of animal magnetism and a mysterious body fluid which allows one person to hypnotize another. Related: Mesmerist.
Wiktionary
n. The method or power of gaining control over someone's personality or actions, as in hypnosis or suggestion.
WordNet
n. the act of inducing hypnosis [syn: hypnotism, suggestion]
Usage examples of "mesmerism".
Project Gutenberg eBook of Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spritualism, by A.
Project Gutenberg eBook, Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spritualism, by A.
In France to a degree and in Germany strongly Mesmerism lent itself to spiritistic interpretations.
As he spoke, Theos obediently went toward him with the dazed sensations of one under the influence of mesmerism, .
Science has its fads and crazes, like anything else: string theory, eugenics, mesmerism.
To show there is such a territory, we have only to name a few of its inhabitants, such as mesmerism, animal magnetism, odylism, hypnotism, mind-reading, faith-cures, clairvoyance, spiritism, including table-rapping, spirit-rapping, most of which have been used in connection with medicine.
Now of mesmerism, animal magnetism, and its kindred, odylism, we have seen that we have no reliable facts.
Magnetism, or Mesmerism, or Swedenborgianism, or Transcendentalism, or some other equally delicious ism, of the same species, and invariably patronized by one and the same species of people.
England in the Popular Record of Modern Science as The Last Conversation of a Somnabule and later as a pamphlet entitled Mesmerism, In Articulo Mortis.
His happy voice complemented the clear, keen evening air and the sunset conflagration of the trees, interwove his listeners like an incantation, a mesmerism.