Definitions for "Svengali"
the musician in a novel by George du Maurier who controls Trilby's singing hypnotically
Little-known 1955 British movie in which JB made his feature film debut (most sources erroneously cite War and Peace as JB's debut film).
Svengali is the name of a fictional hypnotist in George du Maurier's 1894 novel, Trilby. A sensation in its day, the novel created a stereotype of the abusive hypnotist that persists to this day.
Gil Evans's Svengali is a jazz album released in 1973.
a one-of-a-kind sire, with bloodlines and lineage that are not found anywhere else in North America
someone (usually maleficent) who tries to persuade or force another person to do his bidding