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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hypnotist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All tricks a hypnotist might use.
▪ He was able to keep control of himself until the hypnotist mentioned a code-word.
▪ I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will.
▪ I would agree that a hypnotist could not, for example, make me attack an innocent person.
▪ Less reputable hypnotists may then try to change the facts.
▪ The hypnotist uses the act of staring into some one's eyes as his chief technique.
▪ The boys held their breath as a hypnotist began his exhortations.
▪ Whichever side is right, do hypnotists have the right to take patients into potentially dangerous, unknown areas of inner space?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypnotist

Hypnotist \Hyp"no*tist\, n. A person who hypnotizes another, especially one who is professionally trained in the technique.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hypnotist

1843; see hypnotic + -ist.

Wiktionary
hypnotist

n. A person who uses hypnotism to induce hypnosis in someone, either for entertainment or therapy.

WordNet
hypnotist

n. a person who induces hypnosis [syn: hypnotizer, hypnotiser, mesmerist]

Usage examples of "hypnotist".

Perhaps our mysterious Tupak Soiree was actually a master hypnotist, a mentalist who spun a fine, perplexing web of interwoven .

Briefly, the subject will imitate any movement of the hypnotist, or will obey any suggestion made by word, look or gesture, suggested by the one with whom he is en rapport.

Cocke, a hypnotist himself, who submitted to being operated upon by a professional magnetizer.

An extraordinary murder scene: in full view of a stage audience, a hypnotist talks a man into killing!

Maybe it was good publicity, but when he pretended that he was a real hypnotist she wanted to laugh in his face.

He was tall, dark, arched eye-browed, the very picture of what the layman thinks a hypnotist should look like.

They figured real smart-like that since Gall is a hypnotist, he must be the killer.

That last one per cent are the ones that the hypnotist then invites up on the stage!

Internet, looked up the Services columns and made appointments for the following day for them all to see a hypnotist and a medium, chosen more or less at random.

He does not think of the medium and the hypnotist, Doralee must do that.

The judge had noted the increasing dependence of his client on the fair hypnotist, and the growing interest that she seemed to feel in him, and therefore showed some coolness toward the proposal to take her to Bellevale.

The hypnotist had found that many people could be regressed not only to infancy but to the very instant of their conception.

The hypnotist would receive a few interested clients in the privacy of his Silverlake home.

Paul Marcus was a professional hypnotist that he obtained an aborted glimpse of the rulers of the world.

Talk show diva Oprah Winfrey tells an enlightening story about going to a hypnotist for weight loss.