Category:Trance

Trance, n. Etym: [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.)

Defn: 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.

Defn: to pass; to travel. [obs.]

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

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; Acts 11:5; Acts 22:17, ecstasies, "a preternatural, absorbed state of mind preparing for the reception of the vision", compare 2 Corinthians 12:1). In Mark 5:42 and Luke 5:26 the Greek word is rendered "astonishment," "amazement" (compare Mark 16:8; Acts 3:10).