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Definition of Mesmeric
1. Adjective. Attracting and holding interest as if by a spell. "A spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome"
Similar to: Attractive
Derivative terms: Hypnosis, Mesmerism
Definition of Mesmeric
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or induced by, mesmerism; as, mesmeric sleep.
Definition of Mesmeric
1. Adjective. of or relating to mesmerism or mesmerization ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mesmeric
1. pertaining to hypnotism [adj] - See also: hypnotism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesmeric
Literary usage of Mesmeric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Autobiography of an Actress; Or, Eight Years on the Stage by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1854)
"Mr. Mowatt had not any knowledge of mesmerism, nor had I. We had never seen a
mesmeric subject — never heard a case fully described. ..."
2. Mesmerism in India: And Its Practical Application in Surgery and Medicine by James Esdaile (1847)
"First Experiment in making a Somnambulist—Trial of mesmeric Skill in a Court of
... The mesmeric Processes.—Publicity the best Security to the Public. ..."
3. Principles of Mental Physiology: With Their Applications to the Training and by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"I retired, shut the door, performed no mesmeric passes, but tried to forget ...
But, it is asserted, the existence of a special mesmeric forre is proved by ..."
4. The Law of Psychic Phenomena: A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study by Thomson Jay Hudson (1908)
"mesmeric Methods. — The Fluidic Theory. — Influence of the Mind of the Operator.
— The Early Mesmerists. — Their Methods and their Effects. ..."
5. The Zoist (1850)
"JOHN ELLIOTSON. MESMERISM IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND. IV. Public Meeting at Bristol
to found a mesmeric Institute. THE West of England furnished ..."
6. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"The induction of mesmeric somnambulism appears to us to be fully explicable by
... The ordinary phenomena of the mesmeric somnambulism itself are in most ..."
7. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1843)
"mesmeric AMPUTATION. ON Tuesday, the 22d November, a great gun was fired in the
Royal Medico- Chirurgical Society, which was expected to demolish the whole ..."
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