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Since she was a teenager, Ms. Fohr, now 27, has been a kind of one-woman post-cabaret movement, using finger-picked folk-guitar mesmerization, synthesizer ripples, aggressive drone chords and a severe, semi-operatic low voice.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2016

The goal of the guild is total mesmerization.

From Time Magazine Archive

Various attempts at mesmerization were made, but without success.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

A mesmerization lasting nearly three-quarters of an hour, without lingering at any intermediate stage, brings the old man back to babyhood.

From Four-Dimensional Vistas by Bragdon, Claude Fayette