1829 R. Chenevix in London Med. & Physical Jrnl. New Ser. 6 223 The spasmodic contractions were entirely removed after the twelfth day of mesmerising.

1846 J. Jennings Let. 13 July in Corr. M. Faraday (1996) III. 525 This latter case was cured in five mesmerisings.

1999 Nature 7 Jan. 36/2 Patients were prepared for the knife by a team of mesmerizing assistants.

1846 B. R. Hall Something for Every Body vii. 32 An impudent and shameless mesmerizing rascal, who was picking the pockets of willing fools, under pretext of looking by his clairvoyant into their inner man.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xiv. 227 The mystic gesticulations by which he had sought to bring bodily before Phoebe's perception the figure of the mesmerizing carpenter.

1886 Athenæum 6 Mar. 323/3 Verena Tarrant, daughter of a vulgar mesmerizing quack.

1909 I. Berlin Compl. Lyrics (2001) 14/1 That's the only music that was ever meant for me, That tantalizin', hypnotizin', Mesmerizin' Mendelssohn tune.

1964 M. L. King in Transition No. 15. 28/2 He had no mesmerizing talent for swaying multitudes with silver words.

1988 P. Pullman Shadow in North xxii. 267 His personality was mesmerizing, his very flesh was electric with energy.

1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 9/1 Up to and including ‘Drumming’, Reich's pieces were made out of repeated patterns which got mesmerisingly out of synchronisation.

1995 Daily Tel. 8 Aug. 34/1 Edwards's own light shone forth mesmerisingly in Gothenburg and set him on a road to untold riches.