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trance

1 [trans, trahns]

,noun, verb, tranced, tranc⋅ing.

–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.

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trance (trāns)

A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state.
Detachment from one's physical surroundings, as in contemplation or daydreaming.
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.

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