HYPNOTIC

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.

2.
a.

Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.

3.
n.

Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.

4.
n.

A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.


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