Crossword clues for hypnotic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
Hypnotic \Hyp*not"ic\, n.
Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.
A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.
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" (see somnolence). Modern sense of "pertaining to an induced trance" first recorded in English 1843, along with hypnotist, hypnotize, both coined by Dr. James Braid. Related: Hypnotical; hypnotically.\n
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.
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, mesmerizing, spellbinding]
n. a drug that induces sleep [syn: soporific]
Wikipedia
Hypnotic is the last album by Wild Orchid. It is the first album released by Wild Orchid since Stacy Ferguson, a former member of the band, left and became a member of the hip hop band The Black Eyed Peas. There are no singles released from this album.
Hypnotic is a class of drugs.
Hypnotic may also refer to:
- Hypnosis, an induced mental state or set of attitudes
- Hypnotic (Thyrane album)
- Hypnotic (Wild Orchid album)
- Hpnotiq, a brand of liqueur
- Hypnotic, a sub-label of Cleopatra Records
- "Hypnotik", a song by Alesha Dixon from Fired Up
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.
This group is related to sedatives. Whereas the term sedative describes drugs that serve to calm or relieve anxiety, the term hypnotic generally describes drugs whose main purpose is to initiate, sustain, or lengthen sleep. Because these two functions frequently overlap, and because drugs in this class generally produce dose-dependent effects (ranging from anxiolysis to loss of consciousness) they are often referred to collectively as sedative-hypnotic drugs.
Hypnotic drugs are regularly prescribed for insomnia and other sleep disorders, with over 95% of insomnia patients being prescribed hypnotics in some countries. Many hypnotic drugs are habit-forming and, due to a large number of factors known to disturb the human sleep pattern, a physician may instead recommend changes in the environment before and during sleep, better sleep hygiene, and the avoidance of caffeine or other stimulating substances before prescribing medication for sleep. When prescribed, hypnotic medication should be used for the shortest period of time possible.
Most hypnotics prescribed today are either benzodiazepines or nonbenzodiazepines. Among individuals with sleep disorders, 13.7% are taking or prescribed nonbenzodiazepines, while 10.8% are taking benzodiazepines, as of 2010. Early classes of drugs, such as barbiturates, have fallen out of use in most practices but are still prescribed for some patients. In children, prescribing hypnotics is not yet acceptable unless used to treat night terrors or somnambulism. Elderly people are more sensitive to potential side effects of daytime fatigue and cognitive impairments, and a meta-analysis found that the risks generally outweigh any marginal benefits of hypnotics in the elderly. A review of the literature regarding benzodiazepine hypnotics and Z-drugs concluded that these drugs can have adverse effects, such as dependence and accidents, and that optimal treatment uses the lowest effective dose for the shortest therapeutic time period, with gradual discontinuation in order to improve health without worsening of sleep.
Falling outside of the above-mentioned categories, the neuro-hormone melatonin has a hypnotic function.
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.