The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mesmerize \Mes"mer*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mesmerized; p. pr. & vb. n. Mesmerizing.] [Also spelled mesmerise.]
To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep; to hypnotize.
To produce an intense fascination in; to spellbind.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of mesmerize (v.); for suffix, see -ize. Related: Mesmerised; mesmerising.
Wiktionary
vb. (standard spelling of from=Non-Oxford British spelling lang=en mesmerize)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Mesmerise is a single by English Shoegazing band Chapterhouse released in 1991. It appeared in the charts for 2 weeks, entering and peaking at 60.
Usage examples of "mesmerise".
I hate being mesmerised, and the doctor has forbidden me to touch sugar.
Not just her business, but her home as well if the flames should spread, and potentially her life, and yet still she stood there, completely unable to move, mesmerised by the lethal tongue of red and yellow fire, ignoring the heat that scorched her skin, and the ominous crackling sound of dry roof-timbers being eaten away by the furious flames, unable to do anything but stand there and watch her whole world being destroyed.
Lumbering through the commuters streaming towards the platforms or standing in mesmerised groups staring at the departure indicators, he went past the bookstall and some girls selling nuts and then he was below the clock.
Nicholas found himself almost mesmerised by the box now containing his father, and felt both guilt and sadness.
He was mesmerising her, Rue thought disjointedly He was trying to weaken her, to read her mind, to overwhelm her with his maleness in the same way that Julian had once done.
A woman of fragile beauty, with mesmerising violet eyes and a strict moral code, Fidelity has at her beck and call several talented admirers including a scientist, Appleby, and a lawyer, Sir Frank Wrawton.
After a while she went into the hallway and looked out of the window, watching for Mildred, mesmerised by the new fall of rain.
When Kris wound the needle again to zero, the millibars had dropped to 990, and he gazed at this result as if mesmerised.
No one, anywhere, was moving now, and in the great stillness my mind slowed to the rhythm of alpha waves, and three-dimensional reality began losing its definition, drawn into the shadows by the vast stillness here, by the heady fumes of the incense, the mesmerising glimmer of a hundred candle-flames and, above all, the presence of death.
I remember being told ages ago that on the American prairies, which of old had been swept by great tempests, the tempests gradually subsided when man went to reside there: so, if this be true, it would seem that the mere presence of man had a certain subduing or mesmerising effect on the innate turbulence of Nature, and his absence today may have taken off the curb.