trance 1
— trancedly /transt"lee, tran"sid lee/ , adv. — trancelike , adj.
/trans, trahns/ , n. , v. , tranced, trancing .
n.
1. a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended.
2. a dazed or bewildered condition.
3. a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing.
4. an unconscious, cataleptic, or hypnotic condition.
5. 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.
v.t.
6. to put in a trance; stupefy.
7. to entrance; enrapture.
[ 1300-50; ME traunce state of extreme dread, swoon, dazed state transe lit., passage (from life to death), deriv. of transir to go across, pass over transire, equiv. to trans- TRANS- + ire to go ]
trance 2
/trahns/ , n. , v. , tranced, trancing . Scot.
n.
1. a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like.
v.i.
2. to move or walk rapidly or briskly.
Also, transe .
[ 1325-75; ME (v.); orig. uncert. ]