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Mesmerize   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



... want of "philosophy," Dickens is a writer of colossal genius, whose originality and vision puts all our modern "literateurs" to shame. One feels this directly one opens any volume of his. Only a great creative genius could so dominate, for instance, his mere "illustrators," as to mesmerize them completely into his manner. And certainly his illustrators are drugged with the Dickens atmosphere. Those hideous-lovely persons, whose legs and arms are so thin that it is impossible to suppose they ever removed their clothes; do they not strut and leer and ogle and grin and stagger ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys
... bothered. Maybe my clothes are suspicious; and 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
... press. And the million little things that are wrong in the system he also knows out of his own daily life as a conscript. Further, he must be aware that there is a dearth of really great men in his system. In the past there were in Germany men great enough to mesmerize Europe—Bismarck and von Moltke. There is none today that appeals to the popular imagination as Kitchener does in England or Joffre in France. Alone, in Germany, the Kaiser has been able to achieve a Continental renown. The Kaiser has good qualities. But twenty-four years ago he committed ...
— New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 - From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index • Various
... At once! Here, Pearse, lend a hand here, man, before that witch's great eyes mesmerize us again. See, she smiles yet, ...
— The Pirate Woman • Aylward Edward Dingle


Words linked to "Mesmerize" :   magnetise, magnetize, sedate, tranquillise, charm, tranquillize, tranquilize, entrance, calm, Mesmer, spellbind, tempt, bewitch, influence, hypnotize


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