Trancelike


noun
1.
a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
2.
a dazed or bewildered condition.
3.
a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing.
4.
an unconscious, cataleptic, or hypnotic condition.
5.
Spiritualism. a temporary state in which a medium, with suspension of personal consciousness, is controlled by an intelligence from without and used as a means of communication, as from the dead.
verb (used with object), tranced, trancing.
6.
to put in a trance; stupefy.
7.
to entrance; enrapture.
noun
1.
a hypnotic state resembling sleep
2.
any mental state in which a person is unaware or apparently unaware of the environment, characterized by loss of voluntary movement, rigidity, and lack of sensitivity to external stimuli
3.
a dazed or stunned state
4.
a state of ecstasy or mystic absorption so intense as to cause a temporary loss of consciousness at the earthly level
5.
(spiritualism) a state in which a medium, having temporarily lost consciousness, can supposedly be controlled by an intelligence from without as a means of communication with the dead
6.
a type of electronic dance music with repetitive rhythms, aiming at a hypnotic effect
verb
7.
(transitive) to put into or as into a trance

trance (trāns)
n.
An altered state of consciousness as in hypnosis, catalepsy, or ecstasy.

(Gr. ekstasis, from which the word “ecstasy” is derived) denotes the state of one who is “out of himself.” Such were the trances of Peter and Paul, Acts 10:10; 11:5; 22:17, ecstasies, “a preternatural, absorbed state of mind preparing for the reception of the vision”, (comp. 2 Cor. 12:1-4). In Mark 5:42 and Luke 5:26 the Greek word is rendered “astonishment,” “amazement” (comp. Mark 16:8; Acts 3:10).

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