Trance Definition
trăns
tranced, trances, trancing
noun
trances
A state of altered consciousness, somewhat resembling sleep, during which voluntary movement is lost, as in hypnosis.
Webster's New World
A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state.
American Heritage Medicine
Detachment from one's physical surroundings, as in contemplation or daydreaming.
American Heritage Medicine
A stunned condition; daze; stupor.
Webster's New World
A condition of great mental concentration or abstraction, esp. one induced by religious fervor or mysticism.
Webster's New World
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verb
tranced, trances, trancing
To put into a trance; entrance.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
To put into a trance; entrance.
American Heritage Medicine
Tennyson.
When thickest dark did trance the sky.
Wiktionary
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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Other Word Forms of Trance
Noun
Singular:
trance
Plural:
trancesOrigin of Trance
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From Middle English traunce, from Old French transe (“fear of coming evil", "passage from life to death"), from transir (“to be numb with fear", "die", "pass on"), from Latin trānseō (“to cross over")
From Wiktionary
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Middle English traunce from Old French transe passage, fear, vision from transir to die, be numb with fear from Latin trānsīre to go over or across transient
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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