mesmerism
noun
hypnosis as induced, according to F. A. Mesmer, through animal magnetism.
mesmerist
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a word derived from
mesmerism.
Example Sentences
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Bryant Haliday, best known for being one of the co-founders of the American arthouse movie distributor Janus Films, plays The Great Vorelli, a sinister ventriloquist and mesmerist with a huge following in London.
From The Verge ● Jun. 21, 2019
A critic named J. Stanley Grimes, for example, challenged the mesmerist J. R. Buchanan’s claim that he could alter people’s behavior by targeting an invisible substance toward organs of personality in their brains.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2018
But Lee kept his golden eyes fixed on me, and soon it became difficult to say who was the mesmerist and who was succumbing to hypnosis.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2015
Hopkins, the one jolly soul in the family, is a sage from an earlier age — the mesmerist as optimist.
From Time ● Mar. 27, 2014
At one point in his diary he notes that he was reading Trilby, the 1894 best seller by George Du Maurier about a young singer, Trilby O’Farrell, and her possession by the mesmerist Svengali.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
