[Ads-l] Antedating of "Hypnotize"

[mr_peter_morris@outlook.com]

"Hypnotize" in an  1835 edition of  The Pardoner's Tale.

It's in the   introduction, not the actual text.

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Pardoner_s_Tale/XqdKAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=hypnotize&pg=PR34&printsec=frontcover




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From "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU<mailto:fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU>>
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Date 01/12/2024 15:29:37
Subject Antedating of "Hypnotize"

hypnotize (OED 1843)

1842 James Braid in Manchester Guardian 16 Mar. 4/4 (Newspapers.com)

There are only two other words I propose by way of innovation, and those are hypnotism for magnetism and mesmerism, and hypnotised for magnetised and mesmerised.

Fred Shapiro

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