单词 | mesmerical |
释义 | mesmericaladj. Now rare. = mesmeric adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [adjective] > relating to mesmerism magnetical1794 magnetic1800 mesmerian1820 mesmeric1829 mesmerical1852 statuvolic1871 biological1874 post-hypnotic1887 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance vi. 57 Zenobia's sphere..transformed me, during this period of my weakness, into something like a mesmerical clairvoyant. 1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. xiii. 90 Armed with a lock of Lilian's hair and a glove she had worn, as the media of mesmerical rapport. 1986 19th-cent. Fiction 40 397 ‘I detested this kind of man,’ writes Coverdale of the mesmerical Dr. Westervelt [in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1852 |
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