英和和英

動詞

make the passes (三人称単数 現在形 makes the passes, 現在分詞 making the passes, 過去形および過去分詞形 made the passes)

1. (hypnotism) To perform a hypnotic technique involving running the hands over the head and body of the subject.
   • 1837, anonymous, Means Without Living, Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co., pp. 37-38,^[1]

     […] 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, “Animal Magnetism,” Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 5, No. 55, July 1838, p. 460,^[2]

     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,^[3]

     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, Island, London: Chatto & Windus, Chapter Eight, p. 126,^[4]

     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.

参考

• make a pass