5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trance \Trance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tranced}; p. pr & vb n.
{Trancing}.]
1. To entrance.
And three I left him tranced. --Shak.
2. To pass over or across to traverse. [Poetic]
Trance the world over --Beau. & Fl
When thickest dark did trance the sky. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trance \Trance\, v. i.
To pass; to travel. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.]
1. A tedious journey. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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.
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but
while they made ready, he fell into a trance.
--Acts. x. 10.
My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.
--Spenser.
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.
He fell down in a trance. --Chaucer.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
trance
n 1: a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a
magical incantation [syn: {enchantment}, {spell}]
2: a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and
voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling
deep sleep
v : attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's
hearts" [syn: {capture}, {enamour}, {catch}, {becharm}, {enamor},
{captivate}, {beguile}, {charm}, {fascinate}, {bewitch},
{entrance}, {enchant}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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).
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