Sentence example with the word 'mesmerism'

mesmerism

Definition n. the act of inducing hypnosis

Last update: August 27, 2015


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It should be noted that expectations favourable to the new idea had already been created by the interest in mesmerism and the phenomena of hypnotic trance (see Hypnotism), widely diffused at this time both in America and Europe.   [noun]

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It was in this form that he criticized the " atheistic mesmerism " to which his sister Harriet had committed herself, and she never forgave his criticism.   [noun]

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It was in this form that he criticized the " atheistic mesmerism " to which his sister Harriet had committed herself, and she never forgave his criticism.   [Please select]

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"Well, granted that I possess a sort of mesmerism, may I use it for Nora's benefit."   [Please select]

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As we galloped behind Kagig the mesmerism of respect for custom blew away in the wind.   [Please select]

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Dreams induced by opiates, fevers, mesmerism and ill health come under this class.   [Please select]

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Animal magnetism and mesmerism were one thing: this was another.   [Please select]

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There and then he deliberately set himself to resist mesmerism, which is the East's chief weapon.   [Please select]

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Yet all of this might be nothing more than a mixture of keen observation, clever spying, trickery and mesmerism.   [Please select]

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"As for you," said Sanders to the woman, "you drop your damned bush-mesmerism, or I'll treat you in the same way--_alaki_."'   [Please select]

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In them were practised rites apparently mysterious, but which modern science calls by the names of mesmerism, hydropathy, the use of mineral springs, and other essential elements of empirical science.   [Please select]

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