trance
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
trance
- (countable) A dazed#Adjective|dazed or unconscious condition#Noun|condition.
- (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.
- Bible, Acts x. 10
- (countable, psychology) A state of low#Adjective|low response to stimulus and diminished#Adjective|diminished, narrow#Adjective|narrow attention; particularly one induced by hypnosis.
- (uncountable, music genre) Short for trance music#English|trance music (“genre of electronic dance music”).
trance (trances, present participle trancing; past and past participle tranced)
- (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.
- (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. […]
- 2014, Geoffrey Benjamin, Temiar Religion, 1964-2012, page 64:
trance (trances, present participle trancing; past and past participle tranced)
- (obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To walk#Verb|walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp#Verb|tramp, to trudge#Verb|trudge.
- Synonyms: trounce
- (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.
- (obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To travel#Verb|travel quickly over a long#Adjective|long distance#Noun|distance.
- Synonyms: trounce
trance (plural trances)
- (obsolete, outside, Britain, dialectal) A tedious journey#Noun|journey.
- Synonyms: trounce
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