名詞 mesmerism:

1. the act of inducing hypnosis
   同義詞：hypnotism, suggestion

mes.mer.ism

n.（名詞）
A strong or spellbinding appeal; fascination.
迷人的魅力：強(qiáng)烈的或使人沉迷的魅力；魅力
Hypnotic induction believed to involve animal magnetism.
催眠引導(dǎo)法：認(rèn)為與動(dòng)物性磁力有關(guān)的人工引導(dǎo)催眠方法
Hypnotism.
催眠術(shù)

來源：
After &B{Franz} Mesmer
源自 &B{弗朗茲} Mesmer

【引伸】
mesmer.ic
mesmer.ically
adv.（副詞）
mes.merist
n.（名詞）
<注釋>When the members of an audience sit mesmerized by a speaker,their reactions do not take the form of dancing, sleeping, or falling into convulsions.But if Franz Anton Mesmer were addressing the audience,such behavior could be expected.Mesmer, a visionary 8th-century physician,believed cures could be effected by having patients do thingssuch as sit with their feet in a fountain of magnetized waterwhile holding cables attached to magnetized trees.Mesmer then came to believe that magnetic powers resided in himself,and during highly fashionable curative sessions in Parishe caused his patients to have reactions ranging from sleeping or dancing to convulsions.These reactions were actually brought about by hypnotic powers that Mesmer was unaware he possessed.One of his pupils, named Puységur, then used the termmesmerism (first recorded in English in 802) for Mesmer`s practices. The related wordmesmerize (first recorded in English in 829), having shed its reference to the hypnotic doctor, lives on in the sense .to enthrall..
當(dāng)一群觀眾被一位演講者深深吸引時(shí)，他們的反應(yīng)方式不會(huì)是舞蹈、睡眠或哄堂大笑。但是如果換了弗蘭茨·奧頓·梅斯梅爾來給這群聽眾作演講的話，那么這些行為是有可能發(fā)生的。梅斯梅爾，這位8世紀(jì)眼光遠(yuǎn)大的醫(yī)師，認(rèn)為可以通過諸如以下方法來治療疾病，即讓病人把腳放在有磁性的水中，同時(shí)手執(zhí)與磁力場(chǎng)相連接的電線。此后，梅斯梅爾又認(rèn)為他自己體內(nèi)就存在著磁力，并且他在巴黎推行他的治療方法的過程中，他又使他的病人們作出了睡眠、舞蹈直至抽搐等各種反應(yīng)。這些反應(yīng)實(shí)際上是他所擁有的催眠力導(dǎo)致的，但他自己卻不知道自己擁有這樣的力量。后來，梅斯梅爾的一個(gè)叫做皮勒塞格爾的學(xué)生采用了mesmerism （在英語中始見于802年）這一字眼來給梅斯梅爾的治療方法命名。 另一相關(guān)詞匯mesmerize （在英語中始見于829年）則摒棄了與這位催眠醫(yī)師的關(guān)系， 現(xiàn)在這個(gè)詞意是.迷惑住.