[Ads-l] Antedating of "Hypnotic"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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hypnotic (OED, 2., 1843)

1842 Manchester Guardian 6 Apr. 4/7 (Newspapers.com)

The lecturer [James Braid] ... operated on a young gentleman named Walker ... who had derived much advantage from being thrown into the hypnotic state.

Fred Shapiro





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