Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state.
- noun Detachment from one's physical surroundings, as in contemplation or daydreaming.
- noun A semiconscious state, as between sleeping and waking; a daze.
- noun A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often an hypnotic effect.
- transitive verb To put into a trance; entrance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To tramp; travel.
- noun A passing away or apart; a state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being; a state of insensibility to mundane things; a rapture; an ecstasy.
- noun A state of perplexity or bewilderment; amaze.
- noun In medicine, catalepsy; ecstasy; the hypnotic state.
- noun A journeying or journey over a country; especially, a tedious journey.
- noun A passage, especially a passage inside a house.
- To entrance; place in or as in a trance or rapture.
- To hold or bind with or as with a charm or spell; overspread or shroud as with a spell; charm; enchant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To pass; to travel.
- noun Prov. Eng. A tedious journey.
- noun 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.
- noun (Med.) 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.
- transitive verb To entrance.
- transitive verb Poetic To pass over or across; to traverse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A dazed or unconscious condition.
- noun A state of concentration, awareness and/or focus that filters information and experience; e.g.
meditation ,possession , etc. - noun psychology A state of low response to stimulus and diminished, narrow
attention . - noun psychology The previous state induced by
hypnosis . - noun uncountable
Trance music , agenre of electronic dance music. - verb obsolete To
pass ; totravel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation
- noun a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep
- verb attract; cause to be enamored
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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However, Stangl first confessed on Austrian state television that he faked the feat in what he described as a trance-like state brought on by fear of failure.
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However, Stangl first confessed on Austrian state television that he faked the feat in what he described as a trance-like state brought on by fear of failure.
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Maria was living in what I call the trance of fear.
unknown title 2009
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A large collection of links to videos of people in trance states.
Boing Boing 2009
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If I have a chance to meet him, I will tell him that basically I love inexplicable true-event based stories and his stories has successfully left my mind in trance since they seem real but stand beyond it, which makes me wanting to read more and more of his works.
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Power of Music, the people's temporary trance is hardly stern but it is a civic event or even a civic religion: they stand apart, together, in a concentrated present.
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Another bonus, and I hope I won't get misunderstood: while you're in trance, your avie has the most stupid expression ever, like she'll start drooling in just a second ...
Get me excited about 'XCite' pixel bailey 2007
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Canadian rock art interested us because of a traditional Algonkian Indian belief that manitous – spirits – lived inside rocks and cliff-faces, and that shamans in trance could enter the rock surfaces and meet with them in order to exchange tobacco offerings for supernatural power, usually referred to as “rock medicine”.
Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives 2005
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