mesmerism
PURPORTED FORCE IN LIVING THINGS
Mesmerism; Animal Magnetism; Animal attraction; Mesmerist; Mesmerizer; Magnétisme animal; Imagination, influence of, on the corporeal frame; Imagination, Influence of, on the corporeal Frame; Spread of mesmerism in America; Magnetizer; Pathetism
¦ noun historical a therapeutic technique involving hypnotism.
Derivatives
mesmerist noun
Origin
C18: named after the Austrian physician Franz A. Mesmer.