mesmeric

Adjective

mesmeric (comparative more mesmeric, superlative most mesmeric)

1. Of or relating to mesmerism or mesmerization.
   • Even were he to write a lie, he could not meet her and maintain it, with her eyes upon his face: they had uttermost power over him—power as of life and death,—those fine grey sweet mesmeric eyes !1890, Lafcadio Hearn, “Karma”, in Karma and Other Stories and Essays, London: George G. Harrap and Co., published 1921, →OCLC, Chapter VI, page 36
   • Podson's globular stare assured any woman that the bargain was sacred. It was solemn, intent, opaque; it was also slightly mesmeric, which is to say that it gave out everything and took in nothing.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 152