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  • noun Plural form of mesmerizer.

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Examples

  • Such a look, mesmerizers say, penetrates to the person on whom it is directed, and certainly Raoul seemed as though struck by

    A Daughter of Eve 2007

  • In this mysterious region of inquiry he joins hands with some questionable allies, such as the Spiritualists, the phrenologists and the mesmerizers.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

  • It may be seen sometimes in the gipsy; sometimes in the more successful among those who call themselves "spiritual mediums," or among the more powerful mesmerizers.

    Cord and Creese James De Mille

  • There exist at the present time many individuals who claim for themselves, and some who make a living by so doing, a peculiar property or power as potent mesmerizers, hypnotizers, magnetizers, or electro-biologists.

    Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use A. Alpheus

  • Having already dealt with the mesmerizers and hypnotizers, we shall now look only at the classes of independent and generally less scientific investigators and experimenters.

    Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

  • Thus when the Rochester rappings began to be heard of in England, a man deposited 100 pounds in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank, and then advertised in the newspapers to all somnambulists, mesmerizers, and others, that whoever could tell him the number of his note, should have the money.

    VII. English Traits. Truth 1909

  • On my asking, in some panic, what I was to do for some one to put me to sleep, he gave me the names of several mesmerizers in Boston who, he averred had quite as great powers as he.

    Looking Backward: Chapter 2 1888

  • Then, seeing that the information failed to interest me, "What do you think of them -- the mesmerizers?"

    A Little Union Scout Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • On my asking, in some panic, what I was to do for some one to put me to sleep, he gave me the names of several mesmerizers in Boston who, he averred, had quite as great powers as he.

    Looking Backward 2000-1887 Edward Bellamy 1874

  • On my asking, in some panic, what I was to do for some one to put me to sleep, he gave me the names of several mesmerizers in

    Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 Edward Bellamy 1874

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