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trance

1  [trans, trahns] ,noun, verb, tranced, tranc⋅ing.
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–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)   
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.
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Word Origin & History

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.
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Medical Dictionary

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.
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Medical Dictionary

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

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