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HYPNOSIS

\hɪpnˈə͡ʊsɪs], \hɪpnˈə‍ʊsɪs], \h_ɪ_p_n_ˈəʊ_s_ɪ_s]\

Definitions of HYPNOSIS

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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Supervention of sleep.
The condition of being hypnotized.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Supervention of sleep.
The condition of being hypnotized.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

A state of increased receptivity to suggestion and direction, initially induced by the influence of another person.

2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

A trance; an artificial sleep.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

1. Somnus, the state of normal sleep. 2. Hypnotism.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

State of sleep produced by an hypnotic.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

The supervention or production of sleep.

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

The condition of abnormal sleep.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

See Hypnotism.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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