Dictionary
Thesaurus
Reference
Translate
Web
Related Searches
on Ask.com
Synonyms
Nearby Entries
trance - 10 dictionary results
Trance
 $79.99 w/mail in rebate! Act now - only at Verizon Wireless.
 VerizonWireless.com

trance

1  [trans, trahns] ,noun, verb, tranced, tranc⋅ing.
Use trance in a Sentence
–noun
1. a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
2. a dazed or bewildered condition.
3. a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing.
4. an unconscious, cataleptic, or hypnotic condition.
5. Spiritualism. a temporary state in which a medium, with suspension of personal consciousness, is controlled by an intelligence from without and used as a means of communication, as from the dead.
–verb (used with object)
6. to put in a trance; stupefy.
7. to entrance; enrapture.
Origin:
1300–50; ME traunce state of extreme dread, swoon, dazed state < MF transe lit., passage (from life to death), deriv. of transir to go across, pass over < L trānsīre, equiv. to trāns- trans- + īre to go

Related forms:
tranced⋅ly  [transt-lee, tran-sid-lee] , adverb
trancelike, adjective

trance

2  [trahns] ,noun, verb, tranced, tranc⋅ing. Scot.
–noun
1. a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
–verb (used without object)
2. to move or walk rapidly or briskly.
Also, transe.

Origin:
1325–75; ME (v.); orig. uncert.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source Link To trance
trance   (trāns)   
n.  
  1. A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state.
  2. Detachment from one's physical surroundings, as in contemplation or daydreaming.
  3. A semiconscious state, as between sleeping and waking; a daze.
tr.v.   tranced, tranc·ing, tranc·es
To put into a trance; entrance.

[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; see transient.]
trance'like' adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source

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.

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.

Trance

Trance\, v. i. To pass; to travel. [Obs.]
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Cite This Source
Language Translation for : trance
Spanish: trance,
German: die Trance,
Japanese: 夢うつつ
More Translations »

trance 
c.1374, "state of extreme dread or suspense," later "a dazed, half-conscious or insensible condition" (c.1386), from O.Fr. transe "fear of coming evil," originally "passage from life to death" (12c.), from transir "be numb with fear," originally "die, pass on," from L. transire "cross over" (see transient). Fr. trance in its modern sense has been reborrowed from Eng.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Cite This Source

Main Entry: trance
Pronunciation: 'tran(t)s
Function: noun
1 : a state of partly suspended animation or inability to function
2 : a somnolent state (as of deep hypnosis) characterized by limited sensory and motor contact with one's surroundings and subsequent lack of recall —trance·like /-"lIk/ adjective
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Cite This Source

trance (trāns)
n.
An altered state of consciousness as in hypnosis, catalepsy, or ecstasy.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Cite This Source

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).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Cite This Source
Search another word or see trance on Thesaurus | Reference
Trance
 $79.99 w/mail in rebate! Act now - only at Verizon Wireless.
 VerizonWireless.com