Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of hypnotizing, or the state of being hypnotized. Also spelled
hypnotisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of producing hypnotism.
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- noun The act or process of producing
hypnotism .
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Examples
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Under such conditions every subject may soon be brought to that degree of hypnotization which is accessible to him.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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Now she's married to Jew and seems to have awakened from the cult-hypnotization she was immersed in as a child.
OpEdNews - Diary: Comments from The Latest Newsletter; Alito, Site Upgrades, K 2006
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Now she's married to Jew and seems to have awakened from the cult-hypnotization she was immersed in as a child.
Printing: Comments from The Latest Newsletter; Alito, Site Upgrades, K 2006
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"The curative indication is evident:" he writes, "to get at the secondary personage [the unconscious], by hypnotization or in whatever other way, and make her give up the eye, the skin, the arm, or whatever the affected part may be."
Not Freud's Discovery Gardner, Martin 1975
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Certainly real charmers of wild beasts usually end by being bitten or injured in some other way, which would seem to show that the hypnotization does not always work, or else it does not exist at all.
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Further description of the method of producing hypnotism need not be given; but it is proper to add that in addition to the fact that not more than one person out of three can be hypnotized at all, even by an experienced operator, to effect hypnotization except in a few cases requires a great deal of patience, both on the part of the operator and of the subject.
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After a person has been once hypnotized, hypnotization is much easier.
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It is interesting to compare the effects of hypnotization with those of opium or other narcotic.
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The causes which Dr. Cocke thinks produced the hypnotic condition in his case, namely, belief, desire to be hypnotized, and strained attention, united with a vivid imagination, are causes which are often found in conjunction and produce effects which we may reasonably explain on the theory of self-hypnotization.
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This is the so-called mental method of hypnotization.
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