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mesmeric, a.|mɛzˈmɛrɪk|
[f. Mesmer (see mesmerism) + -ic.]
Pertaining to, characteristic of, producing, or produced by mesmerism. mesmeric passes: see pass n.2 11.
1829R. Chenevix in Lond. Med. & Phys. Jrnl. VI. 222 This day, after mesmerising her for nine minutes, she fell into mesmeric sleep. Ibid. VII. 117 Ireland having been thus put to sleep by my mesmeric action. 1847Dickens Haunted M. (C. D. ed.) 219 This example had a powerful, and apparently, mesmeric influence on him of the boots. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. (ed. 2) 55 She was making mesmeric passes.
So mesˈmerical a. (rare) in the same sense; mesˈmerically adv., by means of mesmerism.
1840C. H. Townshend Facts in Mesmerism ii. ii. 115 A cousin of mine could not be influenced by me mesmerically. Ibid. iii. 204 While he was sleeping mesmerically. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. I. vi. 102 Zenobia's sphere..transformed me, during this period of my weakness, into something like a mesmerical clairvoyant. 1862Lytton Str. Story I. 90 Armed with a lock of Lilian's hair and a glove she had worn, as the media of mesmerical rapport. |