mesmerism

All this I admit to be the fever of the mind—a waking dream—an illusion to which mesmerism or magic is but a frivolity.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The perpetual presence of all this beauty has somewhat the effect of mesmerism or chloroform.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. I (of 3)|George Eliot
The lady who is the subject of it is a relation of the writer, and is no believer in the "Mysteries of Mesmerism."
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851|Various
"Now this is pure mesmerism, I declare," said the colonel, on whom not a gesture of the Takur was lost.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan|Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky

Mr. Y—— was a novice in our Society and looked with distrust even on such phenomena as can be pro-duced by mesmerism.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan|Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky

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mesmerism

/ (ˈmɛzməˌrɪzəm) /

noun psychol

a hypnotic state induced by the operator's imposition of his will on that of the patient

an early doctrine concerning this

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mesmerist, noun

Word Origin for mesmerism

C19: named after F. A. Mesmer (1734–1815), Austrian physician

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