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Suggestion
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SUGGESTION. In its literal sense this word signifies to inform, to insinuate, to instruct, to cause to be remembered, to counsel. In practice it is used to convey the idea of information; as, the defendant suggests the death of one of the plaintiffs. 2 Sell. Pr. 191.
     2. In wills, when suggestions are made to a testator for the purpose of procuring a devise of his property in a particular way, and when such suggestions are false, they generally amount to a fraud. Bac. Ab. Wills, G 3; 5 Toull. n. 706.
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Paraliminal hypnotic suggestion has come a long way in the past twenty years.
Awakening the healer within by Prinz, Lois / Subconsciously Speaking
Hypnosis has also been useful, by determining the precipitating cause of pseudoseizures and then abolishing it by hypnotic suggestion.
A case of pseudoseizures by Haines, J.D. / Southern Medical Journal
He claimed to have been helped in his own mental difficulties by a professor's use of hypnotic suggestion and tells a personal anecdote about how this phenomenon worked over "a great distance.
The Titanic's Humanist Paradox by Donnelly, Fred / The Humanist
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