trance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation
    enchantment; spell.
  2. noun a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep
  3. verb attract; cause to be enamored
    capture; entrance; bewitch; fascinate; enamour; captivate; beguile; charm; catch; becharm; enchant; enamor.
    • She captured all the men's hearts

WordNet

Trance noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  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.
Trance transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Tranced ; present participle & verbal noun Trancing
Definitions
  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 intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To pass; to travel. Obs.

Webster 1913