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UK
/mɛsmˈɛɹɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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attracting and holding interest as if by a spell
read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice
she had a warm mesmeric charm
a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome
the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing
How To Use mesmeric In A Sentence
- There are no quotable Dynamite moments - the nearest we get to a zinger is the rugby union result "Nottingham 25, Broughton Park 4, Nuneaton 26" - but the struggles of Towers and his co-presenter are strangely mesmeric. The Guardian World News
- His reconstructed realities captivate participants with a mesmeric hold that lasts far beyond the temporal end of a work.
- It is difficult to believe that any boy, however great his exhibitory passion, could permit, in the full possession of his sensibilities, a needle to be thrust deeply into his flesh without manifestations of a most unmesmeric sort. Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866
- I can even perceive some faint possibility of truth in the explanation which you described as the mesmeric theory -- that what I saw might be the result of magnetic influence communicated to me, as I lay between the remains of the murdered husband above me and the guilty wife suffering the tortures of remorse at my bedside. The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
- But her mastery of singular images was assured; and told from the heart, the story was mesmeric, powerful and moving.
- When mesmeric patients awake spontaneously, they continually ascribe their waking to their first sensation, or even to something imagined.
- This was a 30-minute piece of instantly mesmeric, but seemingly simple tones, and it demonstrated how a recording system could be made which would literally create its own music.
- I can even perceive some faint possibility of truth in the explanation which you described as the mesmeric theory — that what I saw might be the result of magnetic influence communicated to me, as I lay between the remains of the murdered husband above me and the guilty wife suffering the tortures of remorse at my bedside. The Haunted Hotel
- His reconstructed realities captivate participants with a mesmeric hold that lasts far beyond the temporal end of a work.
- His thundering spell of mesmeric hostility first snuffed out the candle flame of Australian hope and then plunged them into the darkness of defeat. Times, Sunday Times
