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Mar 28, 2019
This week’s themePeople who became verbs
This week’s words
grandisonize
lynch
galvanize
mesmerize
Franz Anton Mesmer
Meersburg, Germany
Meersburg, Germany
Sculpture: Peter Lenk
Photo: Andreas Praefcke/Wikimedia
Photo: Andreas Praefcke/Wikimedia
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with Anu Gargmesmerize
PRONUNCIATION:
(MEZ/MES-muh-ryz) 
MEANING:
verb tr.:
1. To spellbind.
2. To hypnotize.
1. To spellbind.
2. To hypnotize.
ETYMOLOGY:
After physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) who discovered a way of inducing hypnosis through what he called animal magnetism. Earliest documented use: 1829.
USAGE:
“[Luke Spiller] recalls being mesmerised by Pentecostal preachers, whose sermons would ‘have people shaking on the ground and jumping out of wheelchairs’.”
Paul Moody; Bristolian Rhapsody; The Guardian (London, UK); Mar 7, 2019.
See more usage examples of mesmerize in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
Paul Moody; Bristolian Rhapsody; The Guardian (London, UK); Mar 7, 2019.
See more usage examples of mesmerize in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
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