Hypnotic1. (a.) Inducing sleep or hypnosis; 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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