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adj. - Attracting and holding interest as if by a spell.

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  • He specialized in mesmeric, often nightmarish visions of scenes from Shakespeare, Milton and Norse mythology.
  • You are aware that I possess in rather a remarkable degree what we have agreed to call the mesmeric power.
  • The sense of touch is also brought into play in hypnosis; Richet set great value on the so-called mesmeric strokes or passes.
  • I was immediately conscious that in his eyes there was, in an especial degree, what, for want of a better term, one may call the mesmeric quality.
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