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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

... his cabin he fell backward in a pretended trance, and lay as if dead. But before he was buried, he recovered. He said that he had been to the spirit world. He called all the nation to meet him at Wapakoneta, the ancient principal village of the ...

— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin

... enterprise; he began to long for the sea again, and for a chance of doing something to restore his reputation. An infinitely better and more wholesome frame of mind this; by all means let him mend his reputation by achievement, instead of by writing books in a theological trance or stupor, and attempting to prove that he was chosen by the Almighty. He now addressed himself to the better task of getting himself chosen by men to do something which should raise ...

— Christopher Columbus, Complete • Filson Young

... Ariadne's utter trance, Crazed by the flight of that disloyal traitor, Who left her gazing on the green expanse That swallowed up his track,—yet this would mate her, Ev'n in the cloudy summit of her woe, When o'er the far sea-brim ...

— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

... craft—above all, those floating, squatting, multitudinously windowed palaces which I subsequently learned to call ferries. It was all so utterly unlike anything I had ever seen or dreamed of before. It unfolded itself like a divine revelation. I was in a trance or in something closely ...

— The Rise of David Levinsky • Abraham Cahan

... Such meetings Isabel had not much sympathy with, at best. But one evening she attended one of them, where the members of it, in a fit of ecstasy, jumped upon her cloak in such a manner as to drag her to the floor-and then, thinking she had fallen in a spiritual trance, they increased their glorifications on her account,-jumping, shouting, stamping, and clapping of hands; rejoicing so much over her spirit, and so entirely overlooking her body, that she suffered much, both from fear and bruises; and ever after refused to attend ...

— The Narrative of Sojourner Truth • Sojourner Truth

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