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hypnotic
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "inducing sleep," originally used of drugs, from French hypnotique (16c.) "inclined to sleep, soporific," from Late Latin hypnoticus, from Greek hypnotikos "inclined to sleep, putting to sleep, sleepy," from hypnoun "put to sleep," from hypnos "sleep" ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; "read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice"; "she had a warm mesmeric charm"; "the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing"; "a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome" [syn: mesmeric ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypnotic \Hyp*not"ic\, a. [Gr. ? inclined to sleep, putting to sleep, fr. ? to lull to sleep, fr. ? sleep; akin to L. somnus, and E. somnolent: cf. F. hypnotique.] Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. Of or pertaining ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB almost ▪ The drums deliver an almost hypnotic effect as the dancers circle the floor. ▪ Rain hissed against the tyres, and the beat of the wipers became almost hypnotic . ■ NOUN effect ▪ His voice had a soothing ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hypnotic (from Greek Hypnos , sleep) or soporific drugs, commonly known as sleeping pills , are a class of psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep and to be used in the treatment of insomnia (sleeplessness), or surgical anesthesia . ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism. 2 inducing sleep; soporific. n. 1 A person who is, or can be, hypnotized. 2 A soporific substance.
Usage examples of hypnotic.
There was no doubt that she needed some analgesia, but she was reluctant to ask for it because of the inevitable hypnotic effects.
If it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotize her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?
The complete manipulatory technique may have included hypnotic suggestion besides the process of ingestion-inhalation.
The manipulatory technique of the sixth specific purpose of the rule included not only ingestion-inhalation but also, according to all indications, hypnotic suggestion.
He classified the seemingly hypnotic process as being only his personal supervision, meaning that he had not revealed to me the complete manipulatory technique at that particular time.
A darker grey than the rest of his skin, the Medusoid cock undulated back and forth, its serpent-like moves hypnotic, compelling, drawing her fascinated gaze.
He did, it is true, have certain oratorical powers, but these appeared to owe more to a gift for hypnotic sonorosity than to any command of thought or language.
As the starets spoke in his hypnotic monotone, an odorless, tasteless mist so fine as to be invisible wafted down from the pipes and nozzles concealed in the distant gloom of the ceiling.
They are to undergo hypnotic foretreatment on board dispatch spacer, and hypnotic aftertreatment upon return.
Instead of a hypnotic, barely modulated drone, Kuwarra punctuated his playing with as weird an assortment of whoops, squawks, squeals, and moans as could be found in a haunted house on Allhallows Eve.
Ignoring the hypnotic beauty of the singing, he stomped forward, purposefully mismatching the rhythm of his steps and the backbeat of the chant.
For you, it could be astrology, numerology, yoga, dance, dowsing, meditation, astral projection, hypnotic regression, dreamwork, breathwork or religion.
Everard and Whitcomb spent an hour unconscious under the hypnotic educators, to emerge with fluency in Latin and in several Saxon and Jutish dialects, and with a fair knowledge of the mores.
Knowing of the increasing difficulty of procuring the hypnotic trance, Van Helsing began his passes earlier than usual.
Erdomites, with a posthypnotic command that each should take the drug every night and then reinforce the hypnotic commands on the other.