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Definition of Hypnotist
1. Noun. A person who induces hypnosis.
Generic synonyms: Psychologist
Derivative terms: Hypnotise, Hypnotism, Hypnotize, Mesmerism, Mesmerism
Definition of Hypnotist
1. Noun. A person who uses hypnotism to induce hypnosis in someone, either for entertainment or therapy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypnotist
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Medical Definition of Hypnotist
1. One who practices hypnotism. Synonym: hypnologist. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypnotist
Literary usage of Hypnotist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collected papers on analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung, Constance Ellen Long (1917)
"In our case the automatism arising in the motor area plays the part of hypnotist ;
the suggestions proceeding from it (called objective auto-suggestions) ..."
2. Subjective Concepts of Humans: Source of Spiritistic Manifestations by John J. Donnelly (1922)
"Since the concept of the hypnotist is the most active, it will assume the ...
The suggestion of the aching tooth must be negatived by the hypnotist before ..."
3. Hypnotism and hypnotic suggestion: A Scientific Treatise on the Uses and by American College of Sciences (1900)
"The methods and mental processes used by the hypnotist, in inducing hypnosis,
are to secure this concentration and surrender of attention. ..."
4. When Kansas was Young by Thomas Allen McNeal (1922)
"The Discomfited hypnotist Along in the middle eighties Medicine Lodge grew
ambitious to have a hotel that would be a credit to the town. ..."
5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"... and should begin a movement which will arouse the apathy of the public and of
the profession to the abatement of the quack hypnotist. FILTH AND DISEASE. ..."
6. The Great Psychological Crime: The Destructive Principle of Nature in by John Emmett Richardson (1902)
"WHAT OF THE hypnotist? There are hypnotists and hypnotists. ... The hypnotist is
thus making his impress upon society in such manner as to warrant a ..."
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