"make the passes" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1837, anonymous author, Means Without Living, Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Co., pages 37–38",
          "text": "[…] he did not stop to think, but hastened to make the ‘passes’ as the technical phrase styles certain unmeaning motions of the hands and arms.",
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        {
          "ref": "1838 July, “Animal Magnetism”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 5, number 55, page 460",
          "text": "Every man and woman, it appears, may magnetize; but the number susceptible of the magnetic influence is much more limited. Every one may make the “passes;” but some mysterious or unexplained condition is necessary in order to imbibe the mysterious fluid. One patient will go into magnetic sleep in a minute or two; another will resist for hours […]",
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          "text": "1901, Henry Abbey, “Veera” in Phaëthon, with three other stories in verse and a prose contention, Kingston, NY: Styles & Kiersted, p. 62,\nHer story done, the maiden begg’d of me\nTo set out for my kingdom, with the dawn.\n“Not yet,” said I, “not yet,” and then I made\nThe passes with my hands and fix’d my will\nTo sway her will, till, with a questioning glance,\nShe fell into a calm, Mesmeric sleep."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Aldous Huxley, chapter 8, in Island, London: Chatto & Windus, page 126",
          "text": "At six, Dr Andrew came to the Raja’s room and, after a little cheerful talk, began to make the passes. In a few minutes the patient was in deep trance.",
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        "To perform a hypnotic technique involving running the hands over the head and body of the subject."
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        "(hypnotism) To perform a hypnotic technique involving running the hands over the head and body of the subject."
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        "(hypnotism) To perform a hypnotic technique involving running the hands over the head and body of the subject."
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