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third-person singular simple present mesmerizes, present participle mesmerizing, simple past and past participle mesmerized
To exercise mesmerism on; to affect another person, such as to heal or soothe, through the use of animal magnetism. quotations examples
Mesmer had about a hundred people whom he had instructed as magnetisers, some of whom belonged to the nobility, who also "mesmerised" people by making passes over the affected parts of the body.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 142
To spellbind; to enthrall. quotations examples
Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring’s fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt’s boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients, page 99