magnetize, spellbind, magnetise, bewitch, hypnotize, mesmerize, mesmerise.
Lamartine is probably the only man who spoke en permanence not to inflame, but to pacify, not to intoxicate with furious words, but to hypnotise into sobriety.
It took only a moment, for he could hypnotise Mahbub by pointing his finger at him.
And gradually it seems to hypnotise him.