hypno-comb. form

1885 E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 841/2 The sclerotia are similar in nature to the hypnocysts of other Protozoa.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 258 The [Amœba] when in a state of repose..forms a spherical or oval ball... It sometimes occurs in this condition surrounded by a delicate membrane forming a ‘hypnocyst’. It is then ‘resting’, owing to drought or plentiful nutrition.

1889 Daily News 24 Dec. 2/7 Hypnodylic operators are born, not made.

1889 Daily News 24 Dec. 2/7 The phenomena of hypnodylism in actual operation.

1889 Daily News 24 Dec. 2/7 The scope of hypnotism and odylism, the aspects of hypnogenesis, the conditions of odylic force.

1887 E. Gurney in Mind Apr. 214 Certain recent events, however, have given special importance to this topic of trance-induction or ‘hypnogeny’, and have raised..the question of the efficacy of psychical influence as a hypnogenetic agent.

1888 Science 9 Nov. 222 Physical methods [of hypnotization], especially hypnogenetic zones, do not exist except as the results of suggestion.

1884 London Med. Rec. Aug. 360 We call those substances hypnogenic which, when administered, may cause sleep.

1887 Fortn. Rev. May 737 The so-called ‘hysterogenic’ and ‘hypnogenic’ pressure points.

1887 F. W. H. Myers in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1886–7 4 127 No attempt..has been made to correlate this hypnogenous force or suggestion at a distance with hypnogenous agencies employed in the subject's actual presence.

1887 F. W. H. Myers in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1886–7 4 127 (note) I must adopt from the French the word hypnogeny for the production of hypnotic states.

1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Hypnologic, of or belonging to hypnology.

1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Hypnological.

1860 Year-bk. Med. 1859 (New Sydenham Soc.) 203 Azam has repeated Mr. Braid's hypnological experiments, and finds that catalepsy and anæsthesia can be obtained in the way he indicates.

1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 681/2 An advertising hypnologist whom I allowed to try his art upon the sleepless individual.

1833 R. Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. in J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (1846) Hypnology.

1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Hypnology, the part of hygiene which treats of the doctrine of sleep.

1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Hypnophobia, term for fear or dread of sleep; also a term for Ephialtes, or night-mare; hypnophoby.

1885 Athenæum 3 Jan. 21/2 He [Dr. J. Ochorowicz] finds that by hanging a magnetic tube, which he calls a ‘hypnoscope’, from the index finger, sensations of a peculiar description are realized.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Feb. 3/2 Experiments have proved that about 30 per cent. of mankind can be subjected to mesmeric influences, while on the rest the hypnoscope has no effect.

1888 Sat. Rev. 18 Aug. 196/1 Every hypnosophist..has his own little private dodge for smuggling himself over the frontier of the land of Nod.

1888 Sat. Rev. 18 Aug. 196/1 The term hypnosophy is new, perhaps, but it looks rather neat and convenient.

1888 Sat. Rev. 18 Aug. 196/1 Hypnosophy stands to scientific discussion of the facts about sleep as theosophy stands to religion.

1889 A. W. Bennett & G. R. M. Murray Handbk. Cryptogamic Bot. 266 It [the zygosperm] then remains dormant through the winter as a resting cell or hypnosperm, germinating in the spring.