Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who practises mesmerism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who practices, or believes in, mesmerism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who
mesmerizes
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who induces hypnosis
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Examples
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Quinsey was known as a mesmerist, a ventriloquist, an illusionist, a prestidigitator and a master of the Black Art, and occasionally in
The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier V. T. Sherman
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This is by obtaining a strength superior to that of the mesmerist, which is only to be realized by being in communion with a Higher Life, and participating in that Life.
Weapons of Mystery Joseph Hocking 1898
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Without being what is called a mesmerist, I am possessed of considerable magnetic power, which I have endeavoured to develop as far as possible.
Mr. Isaacs 1881
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Turns out Mistress Sara isn't a "mesmerist" at all.
Mesmerists and Mind-Controllers Dark Worlds Club 2009
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As if she were some mesmerist, she curled and uncurled her fingers several times, working them over the air.
My Soul to Keep Sharie Kohler 2010
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They are likely a charlatan, a mesmerist, or a dolt.
It's a Plot! 2009
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They are likely a charlatan, a mesmerist, or a dolt.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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This three parter from The Strand Magazine Oct-Dec 1902 features a mesmerist villain named Mistress Sara.
Mesmerists and Mind-Controllers Dark Worlds Club 2009
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Is Obama, who proclaims that the people don't want ideology, a mesmerist?
Krugman: Obama's Centrist Economic Appointments "Unavoidable" 2009
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It's The Cabinet of Caligari here, with the mesmerist (O'Reilly) sending out a mass suggestion to its suggestible somnambulist audience.
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