noun
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a hypnotic state induced by the operator's imposition of his will on that of the patient
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an early doctrine concerning this
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Etymology
Origin of mesmerism
Example Sentences
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Neither astrology nor Mesmerism nor phrenology ever approached this apogee of combined delusion and deception.
From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2019
Mesmerism, as the stage hypnotists presented it, was the hidden basis of all deceptive arts.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2018
Mesmerism, galvanism, electricity, steam engines, republicanism and commercial cabbage farming all swim into view, but in colours and combinations that you will not quite have seen before.
From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2012
Mental Healers narrates the life-history, describes the practices of three such doctor-priests—the discoverers of Mesmerism, Christian Science, Psychoanalysis.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mesmerism affects the power of transferring the operations of one sense to the organs of another; can it be that, in certain states of the brain, the nervous fluids become intermixed?
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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