Meaning & use
mesmerist
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A person who practices mesmerism or hypnotism, inducing a trance-like state in others.
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The Victorian stage act featured a mesmerist who claimed to control his subjects' will.
Skeptics dismissed the traveling mesmerist as a mere showman.
A note on using this word
The term derives from Franz Anton Mesmer, and was widely used in the 19th century before 'hypnotist' became the more common professional term.
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