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Mesmerise vs Mesmerize - What's the difference?

mesmerise | mesmerize | Alternative forms |

Mesmerize is a alternative form of mesmerise.



As verbs the difference between mesmerise and mesmerize

is that mesmerise is standard spelling of from=Non-Oxford British spelling|lang=en|mesmerize while mesmerize is to exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.

mesmerise

English

Verb

(mesmeris)
  • mesmerize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mesmerise (UK)

    Verb

    (mesmeriz)
  • To exercise mesmerism on; to spellbind; to enthrall.
  • * , chapter=4
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized , like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}

    Synonyms

    * (exercise mesmerism on) spellbind, hypnotize, enthrall

    See also

    * hypnotize