mesmerist:
(also ‘mersmeriser’; plural: ‘mesmerists‘ — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
‘to hypnotise’ = to make a person go into a deep relaxation, like a deep sleep, in which the person loses control of his/her own mind and does as he/she is told or tells about things he/she hides from others in normal conditions, e.g. “Some doctors are resorting to hypnotising their neurotic patients when everything else within their knowledge fails.”
Franz Anton Mesmer
a person who has the power or charm to mesmerise the people around him/her, usually with his/her speech, singing or dancing;
(an old word for a hypnotist, especially a hypnotist in former times who performed acts of mesmerising people publicly on stage);
a person/doctor who has the power or charm to mesmerise/hypnotise the people around him/her to cure some diseases or to calm their mind or even to get some information buried deep down a person’s mind,
a mesmerist (R) mesmerising a person
Alan is a mesmerist who treats his patients with his mesmerism.
People used to throng the stage shows of mesmerisers in the 18th & 19th centuries to see how they could keep a person or a group of people in total trance for quite some time.
Jenny is a mesmerist who can make you listen to her for hours on end with her sweet voice and depth of knowledge in any topic you can name. (i.e. by her charming voice and abundant knowledge, nothing to do with medical knowledge)
