2. 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.
And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made
ready, he fell into a trance.
Acts. x. 10.
My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.
Spenser.
3. (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.
He fell down in a trance.
Chaucer.
Trance, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tranced (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trancing (?).]
1. To entrance.
And three I left him tranced.
Shak.