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Contemporary Examples

We have some trance sounds in there in an actual trance sense, says Berkman.

The new president glided onto the stage as if in a trance, not inhabiting his own body.

Everyone seems to be in a state of trance, absorbing the music, and vibrating with energy.

The protagonist in Paris trance talks about creating a museum to all the different varieties of boredom.

This trance was held for approximately one hour and forty minutes of interrogation with a subsequent total amnesia produced.

British Dictionary definitions for trance Expand

a hypnotic state resembling sleep

any mental state in which a person is unaware or apparently unaware of the environment, characterized by loss of voluntary movement, rigidity, and lack of sensitivity to external stimuli

a dazed or stunned state

a state of ecstasy or mystic absorption so intense as to cause a temporary loss of consciousness at the earthly level

(spiritualism) a state in which a medium, having temporarily lost consciousness, can supposedly be controlled by an intelligence from without as a means of communication with the dead

a type of electronic dance music with repetitive rhythms, aiming at a hypnotic effect

(transitive) to put into or as into a trance

Word Origin

C14: from Old French transe, from transir to faint, pass away, from Latin trnsre to go over, from trans- + re to go

Word Origin and History for trance Expand

late 14c., "state of extreme dread or suspense," also "a dazed, half-conscious or insensible condition," from Old French transe "fear of coming evil," originally "passage from life to death" (12c.), from transir "be numb with fear," originally "die, pass on," from Latin transire "cross over" (see transient). French trance in its modern sense has been reborrowed from English.

trance in Medicine Expand

trance (trns) n. An altered state of consciousness as in hypnosis, catalepsy, or ecstasy.

trance in the Bible Expand

(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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