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Mesmerised

adjective

Having your attention fixated as though by a spell. Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed.

Mesmerise

verb

Attract strongly, as if with a magnet. Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerize, spellbind.

Induce hypnosis in. Synonyms: hypnotise, hypnotize, mesmerize.

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... we were nearer heaven in this spot than in any earthly locality I had ever visited; but even here the question of "servants" was an irritation to the nerves of the patient monks. My own servants were excellent, and never quarrelled or complained; they appeared to have been mesmerised by the placid character of their position, and to have become angelic; especially in not fatiguing themselves through over-exertion. With the monks the case was different. In this quiet retreat, where man reigned alone, as Adam in the Garden of Eden; where the cares and anxieties of married life ...

— Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879 • Sir Samuel W. Baker