trance

[ trans, trahns ]

/ træns, trɑns /

noun

a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.

a dazed or bewildered condition.

a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing.

an unconscious, cataleptic, or hypnotic condition.

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), tranced, tranc·ing.

to put in a trance; stupefy.

to entrance; enrapture.

Origin of trance

1300–50; Middle English traunce state of extreme dread, swoon, dazed state < Middle French transe literally, passage (from life to death), derivative of transir to go across, pass over < Latin trānsīre, equivalent to trāns- trans- + īre to go

OTHER WORDS FROM trance

tranced·ly

[transt-lee, tran-sid-lee] /ˈtrænst li, ˈtræn sɪd li/, adverb trance·like, adjective

Words nearby trance

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Example sentences from the Web for trancelike

So have you reached that trancelike state with your new novel?

A Fierce Debut |Jennie Yabroff |March 9, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
He looked up, and it appeared to Julie as though he were shaking off with difficulty some abnormal and trancelike state.

Lady Rose's Daughter |Mrs. Humphry Ward
Bobby Ogden, waking suddenly from his trancelike condition, leaped to his feet and ran after him.

Once to Every Man |Larry Evans
Twilight had not yielded to day when Odysseus awoke from his trancelike sleep, and gazed in bewilderment around him.

Stories from the Odyssey |H. L. Havell

When the thoughts stopped coming in, the butcher was the first to come out of the trancelike state.

The Stutterer |R.R. Merliss
There is nothing in life more beautiful than that trancelike quiet dawn which precedes the rising of love in the soul.

The Minister's Wooing |Harriet Beecher Stowe

British Dictionary definitions for trancelike

trance

/ (trɑːns) /

noun

a hypnotic state resembling sleep

any mental state in which a person is unaware or apparently unaware of the environment, characterized by loss of voluntary movement, rigidity, and lack of sensitivity to external stimuli

a dazed or stunned state

a state of ecstasy or mystic absorption so intense as to cause a temporary loss of consciousness at the earthly level

spiritualism a state in which a medium, having temporarily lost consciousness, can supposedly be controlled by an intelligence from without as a means of communication with the dead

a type of electronic dance music with repetitive rhythms, aiming at a hypnotic effect

verb

(tr) to put into or as into a trance

Derived forms of trance

trancelike, adjective

Word Origin for trance

C14: from Old French transe, from transir to faint, pass away, from Latin trānsīre to go over, from trans- + īre to go

Medical definitions for trancelike

trance

[ trăns ]

n.

An altered state of consciousness as in hypnosis, catalepsy, or ecstasy.

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trance

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verb (used with object), tranced, tranc·ing.

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noun

verb

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trance

noun

verb (used with object), tranced, tranc·ing.

Origin of trance

OTHER WORDS FROM trance

Words nearby trance

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