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Definition of Mesmerizing
1. Adjective. Attracting and holding interest as if by a spell. "A spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome"
Similar to: Attractive
Derivative terms: Hypnosis, Mesmerism
Definition of Mesmerizing
1. Verb. (present participle of mesmerize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mesmerizing
1. mesmerize [v] - See also: mesmerize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesmerizing
Literary usage of Mesmerizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Perfect Course of Instruction in Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Clairvoyance by Sydney Blanchard Flower (1901)
"THE ART OF mesmerizing.—Let us now take up for consideration the method of ...
THE METHOD OF mesmerizing.—'Seat your patient in a comfortable chair and sit ..."
2. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and edited by [Anonymus AC02893924] (1863)
"The art of mesmerizing often exhausts the strength of the person who induces
tliis state of insensibility in the patient; some patients requiring only ..."
3. Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development by Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau (1851)
"While mesmerizing, they will feel pain in the part affected in the patient; ...
I have seldom experienced these pains when mesmerizing; but I have felt, ..."
4. New York Dissector (1848)
"The effects bv mesmerizing her were the same as those produced yesterday, ...
Whilst mesmerizing her on the last-mentioned day, ehe experienced the ..."
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