Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to mesmerism; produced by mesmerism, or resembling its effects: as, the mesmcric theory; mesmeric sleep.
Wiktionary
- adj. of or relating to mesmerism or mesmerization
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or induced by, mesmerism.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. attracting and holding interest as if by a spell
Examples
“I can even perceive some faint possibility of truth in the explanation which you described as the mesmeric theory — that what I saw might be the result of magnetic influence communicated to me, as I lay between the remains of the murdered husband above me and the guilty wife suffering the tortures of remorse at my bedside.”
“I can even perceive some faint possibility of truth in the explanation which you described as the mesmeric theory -- that what I saw might be the result of magnetic influence communicated to me, as I lay between the remains of the murdered husband above me and the guilty wife suffering the tortures of remorse at my bedside.”
“He specialized in mesmeric, often nightmarish visions of scenes from Shakespeare, Milton and Norse mythology.”
“Interestingly a note by Schelling's son on the 1813 text points to the absence of the will-ing subject from magnetic sleep: in mesmeric sleep [magnetischen”
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)
“You are aware that I possess in rather a remarkable degree what we have agreed to call the mesmeric power.”
“I was immediately conscious that in his eyes there was, in an especial degree, what, for want of a better term, one may call the mesmeric quality.”
“The sense of touch is also brought into play in hypnosis; Richet set great value on the so-called mesmeric strokes or passes.”
“From the Jesuits, in childhood, he received religious impressions which might almost be described as mesmeric or hypnotic in their influence upon his nerves.”
“I was conscious, but I was in a kind of mesmeric sleep.”
“She assumed with a kind of mesmeric force all the propositions that Ann Veronica wanted her to define.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mesmeric’.
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 321 more...
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
transpontine, fetichistic, everduring, tachygraphic, tachygraphical, holographic, holographical, spectrobolographic, autographic, chirographal, autographal, ipsographic and 1419 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Pale Fire
Words gathered while reading Pale Fire.
larches, torquate, stillicide, vermiculate, preterist, theolatry, iridule, vulgarian, cloutish, lemniscate, torsion, trillium and 176 more...
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Having: C; m; e
Goodies pulled from a list I've compiled of most-every word having these letters in common — It's going take to take a long, long time to actually get through (and I may want to extend it lat...
chamber, chimney, compesce, imperch, ipom�ic, lambency, premier cru, recumbence, simnelcake, succumbence, umbeschew, almacle and 631 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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to be sorted
litter, palanquin, aver, catamite, phlox, pliant, modicum, poorthink, cow, decalogue, caveat, dais and 175 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Semantic Adventures
cavalier, asphyxiation, august, cadaver, carriwitchet, casuistry, chrononaut, chthonic, erudite, mesmeric, muse, peripeteia and 15 more...
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Magic inspired
tranquility, obliterate, megrim, allay, opalescence, ascendant, attunement, coercion, prismatic, palliation, dynamo, aperture and 15 more...
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She's Beautiful
exquisite, comely, bewitching, captivating, enchanting, irresistable, fetching, hypnotic, spellbinding, curvaceous, haunting, scrumptious and 28 more...
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