WordNet
n. a trance induced by the use of hypnosis; the person accepts the suggestions of the hypnotist
Usage examples of "hypnotic trance".
If it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotize her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?
Automatically, involuntarily, his hand reached out to take the dark glasses Petar was passing him, automatically his eyes followed Petar's hand moving away again and then, in a state of almost hypnotic trance, he watched the thumb of that hand press a catch in the side of the guitar.
If in hypnotic trance you examine a patient's memory of an operation, these incidents are the only periods in the banks you will not find.
Even allowing for the fact that the boy was in a hypnotic trance, there was an expression of idiocy on his loose-lipped, slack-jawed face, a pervading dullness.
Rather, she moved out of the hypnotic trance and more or less sideways, returning to the semicatatonic state in which she'd been since the police had found her.
Laura had nurtured a small hope that termination of the hypnotic trance would snap the girl out of her catatonia as well.
If it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the count see and hear, is it not more that he who have hypnotize her first, and have made her drink of his blood, should compel her mind to disclose to him what she know of us?
The man came to him easily, under hypnotic trance, eager to please.
He's doing the same sort of thing Adam does - helping him, starting to guide that girl safely into a hypnotic trance, so she won't be afraid.
Also, I suspect that Holmes's studies in Tibet might have served him well when the need arose to break a hypnotic trance.
He throws other people into a hypnotic trance and makes them do his devilish business for him.
Syndil put Lisa in a hypnotic trance in order to transport her in the fastest way possible, through the air, just as Barack was doing with Cullen.
Dorothy spent hours under hypnotic trance, being interrogated about places and people she had never heard of or seen.
But he would see at once what this was all about: he would find Simmons in a hypnotic trance and know that murder was in the air.