Definition of "mesmerizer" []

• One who mesmerizes, a hypnotist. (noun)

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• "In a sense this guidance had been present in 1813 in the mesmerizer (who is obliquely mentioned) and also in the "life-spirit" (W2 157)."
• "But guidance suggests a potentially analytic rather than hypnotic relation, since the mesmerizer would simply have been a medium, whereas guidance cognitively organizes the flows with which Mesmerism deals electrochemically."
• "This first epistle, and several afterward, show the mesmerizer in the throes of self-hypnosis."