deathlike state
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University of California Anthropologist Michael J. Harner, corroborating Schonfield, said last week that wine made from the mandrake plant was used in Palestine to induce a deathlike state in persons who were being crucified.
From Time Magazine Archive
How long I lay in that deathlike state I cannot tell.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
