mesmeric

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I never spoke to them; of course not Then you must be strongly mesmeric, and your will acted upon theirs, if you are to take credit for any part in the affair,' continued his pitiless wife I really can't say.

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  1. Of or pertaining to mesmerism; produced by mesmerism, or resembling its effects: as, the mesmcric theory; mesmeric sleep. Phenomena … induced by mesmeric or hypnotic methods. Braid, Trance, p. 31.
  2. Mesmeric lucidity clairvoyance. We are especially anxious to witness cases of what is termed mesmeric lucidity or clairvoyance. Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, April, 1883, p. vi.
  3. Mesmeric promise. See the quotation. Some of the cases adduced—as of the so-called mesmeric promise, or impression made on the brain in the mesmeric state, which irresistibly works itself out in the subsequent normal condition—present a singular conformity to some of the best physiological speculations on the mechanism of memory. Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, I. 288.

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