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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trance \Trance\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trance \Trance\, noun [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.) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Trance \Trance\, verb (used without an object) To pass; to travel. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
trance
noun
1: a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation [syn: {enchantment}, {spell}]
2: a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep
verb: attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: {capture}, {enamour}, {catch}, {becharm}, {enamor}, {captivate}, {beguile}, {charm}, {fascinate}, {bewitch}, {entrance}, {enchant}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "trance": Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorption, abstractedness, abstraction, amnesia, animal hypnosis, autohypnosis, bemusement, brown study, castle-building, catalepsy, cataleptic, cataleptic hypnosis, cataplexy, catatonic stupor, coma, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daze, depth of thought, dharana, dhyana, dream, dream state, dreaming, ecstasis, ecstasy, encephalitis lethargica, engrossment, enrapture, enravish, entrance, fantasy, fantasying, fit of abstraction, fugue, fugue state, half-conscious, high, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, hypnotic, hypnotic sleep, hypnotic trance, lethargic hypnosis, lethargy, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, narcohypnosis, narcolepsy, narcoma, narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization, nod, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, rapture, ravish, reverie, samadhi, sedation, self-hypnosis, shock, sleeping sickness, sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulistic hypnosis, somnipathy, sopor, stargazing, study, stupor, swoon, thanatosis, woolgathering, yoga trance
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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; 11:5; 22:17, ecstasies, "a preternatural, absorbed state of mind preparing for the reception of the vision", (comp. 2 Cor. 12:1-4). In Mark 5:42 and Luke 5:26 the Greek word is rendered "astonishment," "amazement" (comp. Mark 16:8; Acts 3:10).
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