trance
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /tɹɑːns/
  • (GA) IPA: /tɹæns/
Noun

trance

  1. (countable) A dazed#Adjective|dazed or unconscious condition#Noun|condition.
  2. (countable) A state#Noun|state of awareness, concentration, and/or focus#Noun|focus that filter#Verb|filters experience#Noun|experience and information (for example, a state of meditation or possession by some being#Noun|being).
    • Bible, Acts x. 10
      And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance.
    • My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.
  3. (countable, psychology) A state of low#Adjective|low response to stimulus and diminished#Adjective|diminished, narrow#Adjective|narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
  4. (uncountable, music genre) Short for trance music#English|trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).
Translations Translations Translations Translations Verb

trance (trances, present participle trancing; past and past participle tranced)

  1. (ambitransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance#Noun|trance; to entrance#Verb|entrance.
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene iii]:
      And there I left him tranced.
  2. (transitive, rare) To create in or via a trance.
    • 2014, Geoffrey Benjamin, Temiar Religion, 1964-2012, page 64:
      The Horned Toad (kɛŋkak) tranced the rivers into being. A bakɔh bird tranced the mountains. The Scrub Bulbul (ˀɛsˀããs) drilled fire into existence with its beak. And, finally, the Bronzed Black Drongo (tɛrhɛɛh) tranced the year […]
    • 1995, Sue Jennings, Kevin Jennings, Theatre, Ritual, and Transformation: The Senoi Temiars, page 111:
      What is interesting for us here is that Chingkai and her familiars dreamed and tranced the Temiar world into being. […]
Verb

trance (trances, present participle trancing; past and past participle tranced)

  1. (obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To walk#Verb|walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp#Verb|tramp, to trudge#Verb|trudge.
    Synonyms: trounce
  2. (obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To pass#Verb|pass across or over; to traverse#Verb|traverse.
    Synonyms: trounce
    • 1626 January 22 (licensing date), John Fletcher [et al.], “The Faire Maide of the Inne”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972 ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):
      Trance the world o'er.
    • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana
      When thickest dark did trance the sky.
  3. (obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To travel#Verb|travel quickly over a long#Adjective|long distance#Noun|distance.
    Synonyms: trounce
Noun

trance (plural trances)

  1. (obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal) A tedious journey#Noun|journey.
    Synonyms: trounce



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