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  • noun Alternative spelling of hypnotization.

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Examples

  • Then, suppose these circumstances of the case were ordinary, there arose this question, which refused to be solved: Since it was ridiculous to suppose that the hypnotisation was a wanton experiment, and since it had not been for the sake of robbery, what had been its object?

    Master of His Fate J. Mclaren Cobban

  • On her fifth hypnotisation, however, Lucie underwent a kind of catalepsy, after which she returned to the somnambulic state; but that state was deeper than before.

    Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead

  • The conscious-awakened person replies with the lips, 'No,' but at the same time, in accordance with the signal that has been agreed upon during the state of hypnotisation, the finger is raised to signify 'Yes.'

    Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead

  • Such a pretension may cause admiration in the schools, where self-hypnotisation is easy, but in the world it makes its professors ridiculous.

    The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

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