(n.) The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.
(n.) Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.
(n.) Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness.
(n.) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.
(v. t.) To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.
Example Sentences:
(1) When it was grown, it would bring both ecstasy and catastrophe to women.
(2) The survey found that, among clubbers who reported having taken ecstasy within the past month, three quarters had also taken mephedrone – known in the media as "meow meow" – within the same period.
(3) West Ham, a surprising presence in the top four, were the better side and Carroll’s first goal since January was a moment of pure ecstasy for a player who has worked hard to return from the knee injury he suffered in February.
(4) She has also impressed the rank and file with her tough talking to the Police Federation, vowing to break its power and bringing to an end its closed-shop practices, sending many Tories of a certain age into ecstasies of Thatcherite nostalgia.
(5) What the last government has done, systematically, is pretend that there's a science that we need to be concerned about, with drugs like cannabis and ecstasy, which is the justification for doing what they did – making cannabis class B and keeping ecstasy class A.
(6) And ecstasy was a breakthrough, a gateway to a new way of living and being.
(7) This idea is quite contrary to the traditional view that the ancient Maya were a contemplative people, who did not indulge in ritual ecstasy.
(8) They also reported evidence from almost all regions of the world that tablets sold as ecstasy or methamphetamine contained not just the touted ingredients; they also increasingly comprised chemical cocktails that posed unforeseen public health challenges.
(9) Now we think that manufacturers have figured out a new way of making ecstasy without it.
(10) But Nutt admits that he still can't fully answer the question people really want to know, namely: "If you took a standard dose of alcohol, cocaine, heroin or ecstasy, which would be more harmful?"
(11) Celebrity use Celebrities who have admitted taking ecstasy include Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher, who claimed that taking drugs is 'like having a cup of tea', boyband star Brian Harvey and Blur's Damon Albarn.
(12) Within 12 months of his appointment he published a paper that found horse riding to be more dangerous than taking ecstasy – and probably, he suspects, triggered his dismissal nine months later.
(13) Alcohol came top, higher than heroin, crack and crystal meth, while ecstasy and LSD were ranked among the least damaging.
(14) The UK has followed US trends over cannabis, heroin and psychedelics, and led the world in the vilification of MDMA (ecstasy).
(15) She did ecstasy for the first time with, among others, psychedelic guru Timothy Leary.
(16) The primary reported effects of Ecstasy were a 'positive mood state' and feelings of intimacy and closeness to others.
(17) The result seemed assured but more drama was to come, Vaughan rifling an unstoppable shot into the top corner from the left edge of the penalty area to send Sunderland's fans and Di Canio into ecstasy.
(18) Alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than many illegal drugs, including LSD, ecstasy and cannabis, according to a paper from a drugs expert.
(19) He was sacked as head of the Home Office’s advisory council on the misuse of drugs in 2009 when he pointed out that research showed taking ecstasy was less dangerous than horseriding.
(20) That miss allowed Kolarov to redeem himself by sending in the corner that Touré volleyed past Gomes at the near post, before Agüero sent the travelling fans into ecstasy, expertly heading in Bacary Sagna’s cross.
Trance
Definition:
(n.) A tedious journey.
(n.) A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy.
(n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.
(v. t.) To entrance.
(v. t.) To pass over or across; to traverse.
(v. i.) To pass; to travel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Turing to hypnosis, it is made clear that a trance is the execution of a momentarily proposed programme; it is not the result of a generalised mechanical action, but is preordained and geared to various situations.
(2) Trance logic results from the "metasuggestion," experienced through participation in a formal induction procedure, that hypnosis entails new rules of experience and behavior.
(3) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
(4) GHB can induce NREM and REM sleep, anaesthesia, hypothermia, and a trance-like state which has been considered a model for petit mal epilepsy.
(5) Separate item pools were developed to measure each disposition: Trance, Nonconscious Involvement, Archaic Involvement, Drowsiness, Relaxation, Vividness of Imagery, Absorption, and Access to the Unconscious.
(6) Whereas Erickson claimed that 97% of his "deep trance" subjects and 90% of his "medium trance" subjects exhibited literal responses, we found that 87.5% of hypnotized, high-hypnotizable subjects' responses were nonliteral.
(7) "), or Mrs Wilfer, after placing Bella in the magnificent coach of the Boffins, continuing to "air herself … in a kind of splendidly serene trance on the top step" for the benefit of the neighbours.
(8) 4 types of delusional and hallucinatory experience with certain ensuing therapeutic reactions are distinguished: Type 1: pseudonormality and denial of delusions, type 2: overlapping of reality and delusion and frantic attempts to separate the two realms, type 3: hallucinatory absorption and trance-like states, type 4: dramatic delusional play and "happy" hallucinations in regressive psychoses.
(9) On this basis, it is hypothesized that while both the SSC and possession trances involve hippocampal-septal stimulation, the difference between the SSC and the possession states includes the amygdala involvement associated with the latter.
(10) The global rise of CBF in H may be an activation effect caused by resistance against the hypnotizer: the deeper the trance, the smaller the CBF increase in the motor cortical area needed for maintaining catalepsy of the right arm and in temporal cortical fields processing acoustic inputs.
(11) The state of trance-coma and the value of 15 scores and less should be taken into consideration as a contraindication for the solution of the question of operation in patients with cranio-cerebral traumas.
(12) It is also noted that the efficacy of the treatment would appear to depend on achieving a satisfactory depth of hypnotic trance.
(13) The author argues that the similarity of the Bushman trance state, kia and that of drug-induced altered states of consciousness has been paid too little attention in the research, and that an enigma currently exists with regard to the degree to which plant drugs may have influenced the !Kung trance phenomenon and healing beliefs.
(14) These results recall the theory that stress predisposes to hypnotic trance.
(15) Statistical evaluation of the six variables (age, sex, result, trance depth, psychological factors and severity of the asthma) confirmed the clinical impression that the ability to go into a deep trance (closely associated with the youthfulness of the subject) gives the best possibility of improvement, especially if there are significant aetiological psychological factors present and the asthma is not severe.
(16) After fantasy work in a trance state a patient with post-traumatic headaches experienced some relief as other symptoms appeared, and then total relief along with the disappearance of the other symptoms.
(17) Once, a businessman sitting next to me on a plane to Tangiers told me his wife's mother had the ability, after going into a music-induced trance, to drink boiling water, and to spit it out again a few seconds later ice cold.
(18) Has he ever actually put someone in a trance by doing this dance?
(19) Korine is currently putting the finishing touches to a little project that involves him performing a Haitian "voodoo tap-dance" that sends people into a trance.
(20) The manifestations of the trance, and its course and outcome are outlined.