MESMERIZE

PRONUNCIATION: (MEZ/MES-muh-ryz)

MEANING: verb tr.:
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.
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MESMERITE - one whose religion is based on Animal Magnetism

MEMMERIZE - when you know something by heart but still can't spell it

MESOMERIZE - in stereochemistry, to make a racemic mixture of d- and l-isomers in equal measure