Trance
[trɑːns] or [træns]
Definition
(noun.) a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep.
Checked by Clarice--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A tedious journey.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To entrance.
(v. t.) To pass over or across; to traverse.
(v. i.) To pass; to travel.
Typist: Ruth
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Ecstasy.[2]. (Med.) Catalepsy.
Typist: Malcolm
Definition
n. a morbid sleep differing from natural repose in duration in profound insensibility &c.—the concomitant or symptom of diseases of the nervous system particularly hysteria: catalepsy.—adv. Tranced (Shak.) lying in a trance or ecstasy.—adv. Tranc′edly.
Edited by Erna
Examples
- Of course I shall go on living as a man might do who had seen heaven in a trance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In a kind of spiritual trance, she yielded, she gave way, and all was dark. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Like a priestess she looked, unconscious, sunk in a heavy half-trance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You will find--First, that you entered Miss Verinder's sitting-room and took the Diamond, in a state of trance, produced by opium. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And in catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His body was in a trance of exhaustion, his spirit heard thinly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This day had gone by like so many more, in an activity that was like a trance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The grasp of his hand relaxed; the upraised arm fell languidly by his side; and he lay like one in a profound trance. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- So I answered after I had waked from the trance-like dream. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Not a black trance like the toad's, buried in marble; nor a long, slow death like yours in Briarfield rectory. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His faculties seemed tranced, and he was still groping for the word to break the spell. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Typist: Waldo