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Definition of Hypnotic trance
1. Noun. A trance induced by the use of hypnosis; the person accepts the suggestions of the hypnotist.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypnotic Trance
Literary usage of Hypnotic trance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers, Leopold Hamilton Myers (1907)
"Ordinary sleep is roughly intermediate between waking life and deep hypnotic
trance; and it seems a priori probable that its memory will have links of ..."
2. Future Life in the Light of Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science by Louis Lucien Baclé (1906)
"Table-Turning, as a Means of Communication, inferior to hypnotic trance.— Lack
of Authenticity in Spirit Communications.— Theory that the Incarnation of Man ..."
3. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"... of course, is fur- by the ordinary hypnotic trance!^ The degree of intelligence,
which finds its way to expression in that trance or slumber varies in ..."
4. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"Proceeding to enumerate the symptoms of the hypnotic trance, I may confine myself
to those which are intrinsically interesting, or which differ considerably ..."
5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1898)
"... and I know of no authority which would justify the position that the subject,
on awakening from a hypnotic trance, could remember all or relate anything ..."