[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

trance \trance\, n. 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.
   1913 webster
   1. a tedious journey. prov. eng. --halliwell.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            and he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but
            while they made ready, he fell into a trance.
                                                  --acts. x. 10.
      1913 webster

            my soul was ravished quite as in a trance.
                                                  --spenser.
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   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.
      1913 webster

            he fell down in a trance.             --chaucer.
      1913 webster
see also:
issue transit 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

trance \trance\, v. i.
   to pass; to travel. obs.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

trance \trance\, v. t. imp.  p. p. tranced; p. pr.  vb. n.
   trancing.
   1. to entrance.
      1913 webster

            and three i left him tranced.         --shak.
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   2. to pass over or across; to traverse. poetic
      1913 webster

            trance the world over.                --beau.  fl.
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            when thickest dark did trance the sky. --tennyson.
      1913 webster
see also:
tranced trancing 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

trance
     n 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
     v : 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
see also:
enchantment spell capture enamour catch becharm 
enamor captivate beguile charm fascinate 
bewitch entrance enchant 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

[6] : Easton's 1897 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; 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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