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mesmerism

/mez-muh-riz-uhm, mes-/US // ˈmɛz məˌrɪz əm, ˈmɛs- //UK // (ˈmɛzməˌrɪzəm) //

催眠术,催眠主义,催眠剂,召唤术

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : hypnosis as induced, according to F. A. Mesmer, through animal magnetism.
    • : hypnotism.
    • : a compelling attraction; fascination.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • The perpetual presence of all this beauty has somewhat the effect of mesmerism or chloroform.

  • The lady who is the subject of it is a relation of the writer, and is no believer in the "Mysteries of Mesmerism."

  • "Now this is pure mesmerism, I declare," said the colonel, on whom not a gesture of the Takur was lost.

  • Mr. Y—— was a novice in our Society and looked with distrust even on such phenomena as can be pro-duced by mesmerism.