trance

6 definitions found

trance - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Trance \Trance\, n. [F. transe fright, in OF. also, trance or
     swoon, fr. transir to chill, benumb, to be chilled, to
     shiver, OF. also, to die, L. transire to pass over, go over,
     pass away, cease; trans across, over + ire to go; cf. L.
     transitus a passing over. See Issue, and cf. Transit.]
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     1. A tedious journey. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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     2. 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.
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              And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but
              while they made ready, he fell into a trance.
                                                    --Acts. x. 10.
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              My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     3. (Med.) 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.
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              He fell down in a trance.             --Chaucer.
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  Trance \Trance\, v. i.
     To pass; to travel. [Obs.]
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  Trance \Trance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tranced; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Trancing.]
     1. To entrance.
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              And three I left him tranced.         --Shak.
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     2. To pass over or across; to traverse. [Poetic]
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              Trance the world over.                --Beau. & Fl.
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              When thickest dark did trance the sky. --Tennyson.
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trance - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  trance
      n 1: a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a
           magical incantation [syn: enchantment, spell, trance]
      2: a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and
         voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep
         sleep
      v 1: attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's
           hearts" [syn: capture, enamour, trance, catch,
           becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm,
           fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant]

trance - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Trance
  (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).

trance - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "trance":
     Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption,
     abstractedness, abstraction, amnesia, animal hypnosis,
     autohypnosis, bemusement, brown study, castle-building, catalepsy,
     cataleptic, cataleptic hypnosis, cataplexy, catatonic stupor, coma,
     daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daze, depth of thought, dharana,
     dhyana, dream, dream state, dreaming, ecstasis, ecstasy,
     encephalitis lethargica, engrossment, enrapture, enravish,
     entrance, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, fugue,
     fugue state, half-conscious, high, hypnosis, hypnotherapy,
     hypnotic, hypnotic sleep, hypnotic trance, lethargic hypnosis,
     lethargy, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing,
     muted ecstasy, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis,
     narcotic stupor, narcotization, nod, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming,
     preoccupation, rapture, ravish, reverie, samadhi, sedation,
     self-hypnosis, shock, sleeping sickness, sleepwalking,
     somnambulism, somnambulistic hypnosis, somnipathy, sopor,
     stargazing, study, stupor, swoon, thanatosis, woolgathering,
     yoga trance