Definitions of mesmerism

1. 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.

2. Art of mesmerizing.

3. A system which connects animal life with a supposed magnetic fluid.

4. Mesmeric.

5. The production of a trance like condition by control of will; hypnotism.

6. Personal magnetism: named from Franz Mesmer ( 1733- 1815), the originator.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Mesmerically.

10. Mesmerical.