Trance

n. [Fr. transe, fright; Sp. & Pg. trance, danger, a critical moment, the last stage of life; It. transito, passage, decease; Lat. transitus, a passage, from transire, to pass over; trans, across, over, and ire, to go; Fr. transir, to chill, overcome, paralyze, O. Fr. & O. Sp. transir, to decease, die.]

1. The act of trancing or journeying over or across a country; a journey; especially, a tedious journey. [Obs.]
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 10. My soul was ravished quite as in a trance. Spenser. 3. (Med.) The total suspension of mental power and voluntary motion, pulsation and breathing continuing, the muscles being flexible, and body yielding to and retaining any given position not incompatible with the laws of gravitation; catalepsy.