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Mesmerize   /mˈɛzmərˌaɪz/   Listen
verb
Mesmerize  v. t.  (past & past part. mesmerized; pres. part. mesmerizing)  (Also spelled mesmerise)  
1.
To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep; to hypnotize.
2.
To produce an intense fascination in; to spellbind.





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"Mesmerize" Quotes from Famous Books



... returned uneasily: "There may be such a place in Sheridan, but I have never found it. Old Mother Shattuck keeps roomers, but she won't have a woman in the house. I reckon you 'll have to try it at the hotel—I'll get you in there if I have to mesmerize the clerk—you'll find it a bit ...
— Keith of the Border • Randall Parrish
... impossible. So we spent it thus—A.M. Full Cathedral Service with the Holy Communion, which was very nice, though, as it was a Feast Day, the service was later than usual, so it took all our morning. Rex played the organ. We spent most of the afternoon in tuning the organ, and then R. went off to mesmerize a man for neuralgia, and I went up town to try and get something ...
— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden
... they are—for an artist. If my conscience would allow me to make a change, but that is out of the question. I wonder what he's making those passes in the air for, with his hands. I seem to be the object of them. Can he be trying to mesmerize me? I don't quite like it. There's ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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