Associations to the word «Mesmerism»

Wiktionary

MESMERISM, noun. The method or power of gaining control over someone's personality or actions, as in hypnosis or suggestion.

Dictionary definition

MESMERISM, noun. The act of inducing hypnosis.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope