[f. STATUVOL-ENT + -ISM.] (See quots.) So Statuvolic a., pertaining to statuvolism; Statuvolize v., to produce statuvolism in (a patient).
1871. W. B. Fahnestock (title), Statuvolism; or, artificial somnambulism, hitherto called Mesmerism; or animal magnetism. [etc.]
1883. Miss C. L. Hunt, Priv. Instr. Org. Magnetism, 54. Dr. W. Baker Fahenstock’s [sic] system of what he terms Statuvolism. Ibid., 56. You will recognise that Statuvolism is a slow form of Auto-Magnetisation. Ibid. Statuvolising would be more easily recognised, as a kind of weak-minded, indolent, though tedious, method of Magnetising by persuasion.
