[ adj ] attracting and holding interest as if by a spell <adj.all> read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voiceshe had a warm mesmeric charm the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome
Mesmeric \Mes*mer"ic\, Mesmerical \Mes*mer"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. mesm['e]rique.] Of, pertaining to, or induced by, mesmerism; as, mesmeric sleep.
He exercised a mesmeric influence on people, a brutal emotional tyranny that, as Mr. Richardson notes, "was the more effective for being tacit."
Wilson's cast bop and strut and beat out the mesmeric rhythms in husky tempting voices.