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Trance   /træns/   Listen
noun
Trance  n.  
1.
A tedious journey. (Prov. Eng.)
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." "My soul was ravished quite as in a trance."
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."


verb
Trance  v. t.  (past & past part. tranced; pres. part. trancing)  
1.
To entrance. "And three I left him tranced."
2.
To pass over or across; to traverse. (Poetic) "Trance the world over." "When thickest dark did trance the sky."


Trance  v. i.  To pass; to travel. (Obs.)





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"Trance" Quotes from Famous Books



... forth into the fields and woods, heavily leaning on his stick. One day he stayed out longer than usual, and, the doctor arriving, a search was made after him. It was fruitless for some time; at last, however, he was found in his favourite hollow oak, sitting as in a trance, his face illumined by the setting sun. Enraptured joy seemed to pervade his whole being; unutterable bliss to fill his mind. The doctor looked serious, and made an attempt to upbraid his patient, but which was entirely unsuccessful. ...
— The Life of John Clare • Frederick Martin
... sister, you must take great care that you do not fall into a trance when you get to Manaos, and vanish altogether when ...
— Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • Jules Verne
... resolutions aroused him, and he rose to reply, and his words seared his views upon the minds of the delegates, who sat motionless like men in a trance. It seemed to Rodney, when the last word was spoken, as though he had not breathed from the moment the orator began. The speaker's face seemed to become luminous and his eyes blazed and the boy shivered as though with a chill. Certain ...
— Rodney, the Ranger - With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield • John V. Lane
... The trance continued till after breakfast, when our officers' impatience could no longer withstand the bait, and, though short of efficient boats, the yawl and lieutenant's gig were manned for a hazardous enterprise. ...
— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer
... seekin, and in my mind wuz chaotic confusion. Wuz the dream prophetic, or wuz it merely a vagary uv the mind, wich, wen loosed from its clay, sores off onto its own hook, without any restraint. Is the giant Republican actually dead, or is he in a trance? Will it arise, and scatter them ez hez appinted themselves administrators uv its estate, and wich are beginnin to divide the assets, or will he stay ded? Wood, oh wood, ...
— "Swingin Round the Cirkle." • Petroleum V. Nasby


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