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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}.]
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1. A tedious journey. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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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.
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And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but
while they made ready, he fell into a trance.
--Acts. x. 10.
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My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.
--Spenser.
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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.
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He fell down in a trance. --Chaucer.
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Trance \Trance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tranced}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Trancing}.]
1. To entrance.
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And three I left him tranced. --Shak.
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2. To pass over or across; to traverse. [Poetic]
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Trance the world over. --Beau. & Fl.
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When thickest dark did trance the sky. --Tennyson.
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Trance \Trance\, v. i.
To pass; to travel. [Obs.]
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