MESMERISM
\mˈɛsməɹˌɪzəm], \mˈɛsməɹˌɪzəm], \m_ˈɛ_s_m_ə_ɹ_ˌɪ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of MESMERISM
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A state of increased receptivity to suggestion and direction, initially induced by the influence of another person.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The art of causing in another an unnatural state of the nervous system resembling sleep, in which the thoughts and actions of the patient are controlled by the will of the operator; hypnotism.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Mesmeric.
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The production of a trance like condition by control of will; hypnotism.
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Personal magnetism: named from Franz Mesmer (1733-1815), the originator.
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Mesmerical.
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Mesmerically.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Animal magnetism, or the presumed magnetic influence exerted by one person upon another, affecting his body in various ways, and controlling his thoughts and actions.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The art of inducing a state of complete coma or insensibility, or of somnambulism, in which the operator claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient; the doctrine of animal magnetism.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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