To spellbind; fascinate
mesmerize-to spellbind; fascinate.
Mesmerize is an eponym from Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), an Austrian physician who developed a theory of animal magnetism and a mysterious body fluid which allows one person to hypnotize another.
To comment unfavorably or critically
animadvert-to comment unfavorably or critically.
Animadvert comes from the Latin animadvertere meaning to heed or censure.
A state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation
perdition- a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
Perdition stems from the Latin perditiōn- meaning destruction. It was the equivalent of perdit, the past participle of perdere meaning to do in, ruin or lose.
Violently or destructively frenzied; wild; crazed; deranged.
berserk-violently or destructively frenzied; wild; crazed; deranged.
The English usage of berserk lies in an Old Norse story introduced by Sir Walter Scott in 1822. It is from the Old Norse word berserkr (n.) meaning a raging warrior of superhuman strength. Linguistically, it probably from stems from ber- meaning bear and serkr meaning shirt, thus literally "a warrior clothed in bearskin."
Proper to or suggestive of a tomb; funereal or dismal.
sepulchral-proper to or suggestive of a tomb; funereal or dismal.
Sepulchural is derived from the Latin sepulcrum, from sepul- meaning to bury and -crum which was the suffix denoting place, so it literally meant “place to bury
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