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Verb
make the passes (third-person singular simple present makes the passes, present participle making the passes, simple past and past participle made the passes)
- (hypnotism) To perform a hypnotic technique involving running the hands over the head and body of the subject.
1837, anonymous author, Means Without Living, Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co., pages 37–38:[…] he did not stop to think, but hastened to make the ‘passes’ as the technical phrase styles certain unmeaning motions of the hands and arms.
1838 July, “Animal Magnetism”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 5, number 55, page 460:Every man and woman, it appears, may magnetize; but the number susceptible of the magnetic influence is much more limited. Every one may make the “passes;” but some mysterious or unexplained condition is necessary in order to imbibe the mysterious fluid. One patient will go into magnetic sleep in a minute or two; another will resist for hours […]
- 1901, Henry Abbey, “Veera” in Phaëthon, with three other stories in verse and a prose contention, Kingston, NY: Styles & Kiersted, p. 62,
- Her story done, the maiden begg’d of me
- To set out for my kingdom, with the dawn.
- “Not yet,” said I, “not yet,” and then I made
- The passes with my hands and fix’d my will
- To sway her will, till, with a questioning glance,
- She fell into a calm, Mesmeric sleep.
1962, Aldous Huxley, chapter 8, in Island, London: Chatto & Windus, page 126:At six, Dr Andrew came to the Raja’s room and, after a little cheerful talk, began to make the passes. In a few minutes the patient was in deep trance.
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