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Webster 1913 Edition

Trance

Trance

,
Noun.
[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.

Trance

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tranced
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Trancing
.]
1.
To entrance.
And three I left him
tranced
.
Shakespeare
2.
To pass over or across; to traverse.
[Poetic]
Trance
the world over.
Beau. & Fl.
When thickest dark did
trance
the sky.
Tennyson.

Trance

,
Verb.
I.
To pass; to travel.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Trance

TR`ANCE

,
Noun.
tr`ans. [L. transitus, a passing over; transeo, to pass over; trans and eo.] An ecstasy; a state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into celestial regions, or to be rapt into visions.
My soul was ravish'd quite as in a trance.
While they made ready, he fell into a trance, and saw heaven opened. Acts 10.

Definition 2024

trancé

trancé

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Spanish

Verb

trancé

  1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of tranzar.

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