Hypnotism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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HYPNOTISM hip n tiz m Gr.,=putting to sleep, to induce an altered state of consciousness...hypnosis, such that certain actions may become dissociated from the conscious mind. In the late 19th cent., it was used by a number of medical practitioners...