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mesmerically en · ADV

Etymology

From mesmeric + -ally.

Meanings

1. In a mesmeric manner; by, or as if by, hypnotism.
   • "What do you want me to do?" she asked, in her nervousness holding the bowl of her glass — it was a large glass on a stem, that the Mexicans call a Copa, a Cup — and swaying the wine mesmerically. 1925, D.H. Lawrence, chapter XVIII, in Louis L. Martz, editor, Quetzalcoatl, New York: New Directions, published 1998, page 307:

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