单词 | trance |
释义 | trance trance1 —trancedly /transt"lee, tran"sid lee/, adv. —trancelike, adj. /trans, trahns/, n. , v. , tranced, trancing. n. 1. a half-conscious state, seemingly between sleeping and waking, in which ability to function voluntarily may be suspended. 2. a dazed or bewildered condition. 3. a state of complete mental absorption or deep musing. 4. an unconscious, cataleptic, or hypnotic condition. 5. Spiritualism. a temporary state in which a medium, with suspension of personal consciousness, is controlled by an intelligence from without and used as a means of communication, as from the dead. v.t. 6. to put in a trance; stupefy. 7. to entrance; enrapture. [1300-50; ME traunce state of extreme dread, swoon, dazed state < MF transe lit., passage (from life to death), deriv. of transir to go across, pass over < L transire, equiv. to trans- TRANS- + ire to go] trance2 /trahns/, n. , v. , tranced, trancing. Scot. n. 1. a passageway, as a hallway, alley, or the like. v.i. 2. to move or walk rapidly or briskly. Also, transe. [1325-75; ME (v.); orig. uncert.] |
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