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  • noun Plural form of hypnosis.

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Examples

  • Maybe he's in cahoots with this guy, who apparently wants to lull the candidates into some form of hypnoses.

    CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2007 2007

  • One may have the knowledge of a Lavoisier, and still not be able to analyze, not be able even to see, except conformably with the hypnoses, or the conventional reactions against hypnoses, of one's era.

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • So chemistry divided and sub-divided down to atoms; then, in the essential insecurity of all quasi-constructions, it built up a system, which, to anyone so obsessed by his own hypnoses that he is exempt to the chemist's hypnoses, is perceptibly enough an intellectual anæmia built upon infinitesimal debilities.

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • In accordance with the mathematical hypnoses of his era, he studied these six transits.

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • Whether this be imaginable or not depends upon each one's own hypnoses.

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • But even so, or considering that he still had probably a good many years to live, it may strike one that he was a little rash -- that is if one has not gone very deep into the study of hypnoses -- that, having "discovered"

    The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

  • He realised more and more that the state was a conscious one, and that the losses of memory which followed on waking could always be restored in subsequent hypnoses.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

  • Moll conceded that this looked like simulation, but repetition of such experiments forced him to conclude that these were real, typical hypnoses, in which, in spite of the sense-delusions, there was a dim, dreamy consciousness existing, which influenced the actions of the subject, and which prevented him from striking at a human being, although hitting at an imaginary object.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Moll conceded that this looked like simulation, but repetition of such experiments forced him to conclude that these were real, typical hypnoses, in which, in spite of the sense-delusions, there was a dim, dreamy consciousness existing, which influenced the actions of the subject, and which prevented him from striking at a human being, although hitting at an imaginary object.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • I agree, some of my best and closest friends are devoted Muslims, being in state of hypnoses is not reason to abandon your friend.

    Jihad Monitor 2010

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