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trance(1) (iou)



trance noun. [tr¨»:ns] LME.
[Old French transe (mod. trance), from transir depart, die, fall into a trance from Latin transire: see TRANSIENT.]
A state of extreme apprehension or dread; a state of doubt or suspense. LME-L16.
Caxton She was in a traunce what she shold saye to her.
An unconscious or insensible condition; a faint; a half-conscious state characterized by a lack of response to stimuli; a cataleptic or hypnotic condition. Also (Spiritualism), such a state as entered into by a medium. LME.
H. A. L. Fisher He went into trances..and visions appeared to him. O. Sacks Indications of catatonia or trance, impeding all movement and speech and thought.
An intermediate state between sleeping and waking; half-awake condition; a stunned or dazed state. LME.
T. Gray Glo'ster stood aghast in speechless trance.
A state of mental abstraction from external things; absorption, exaltation, rapture, ecstasy. LME.
Y. Menuhin I played..automatically in a..happy trance. G. Daly A religious trance that seems to border on sexual ecstasy.
More fully trance music. A type of electronic dance music characterized by hypnotic rhythms and sounds. L20.
Big Issue Block and Lisa Lashes..pump those burned little brains with an ungodly diet of non-stop trance.
tranceful adjective (rare) full of trances; entrancing: L19.
trancelike adjective resembling a trance; like that of a trance: E19.