mesmerize

• mesmerise (UK)

Back-formation from mesmerism, thus mesmerism +‎ -ize; first attested in 1829.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛzməɹaɪz/

mesmerize (third-person singular simple present mesmerizes, present participle mesmerizing, simple past and past participle mesmerized)

1. To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients, page 99:

     Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring’s fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt’s boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

   She mesmerized the audience with her tricks

• (exercise mesmerism on): spellbind, hypnotize, enthrall, fascinate

• hypnotize

• mesmerize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mesmerize in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

mesmerize

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of mesmerizar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of mesmerizar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of mesmerizar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of mesmerizar