Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An amended and former spelling of trance.
  • noun An obsolete spelling of trance, trance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete See trance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Obsolete form of trance.

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Examples

  • All these meanings have been associated with the notion of trance, a word etymologically rooted to the Middle English traunce, the Old French transe, and the Latin transpire, which refer to a passage or means of going over or across.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • No Loopita, a incrivel performance de Pixel colocou todo mundo em transe.

    Cobertura OFFF/09 Red 2009

  • No Loopita, a incrivel performance de Pixel colocou todo mundo em transe.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Red 2009

  • Tout d'ab '* Cristophe* a realisé mon reve en prenant une photo de ce qui me met directement en transe!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • Alucinada, de olhos bem abrtos para receber as mensagens dos deuses, os fumos faziam a sibilia entrar em transe, e esta murmurava os oráculos que apolo lhe transmitia aos sacerdotes que, diligentes, os versificavam.

    Sibila Artur 2005

  • The lawer transe was condempned, diverse slane into it, and the East blok-house was schote of fra the rest of the place, betuix ten houris and ellevin.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • And these woordis in his melancholie, and as it war caryed away in ane transe, repeated hie from tyme to tyme, to the verray hour of his death.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Hastening back as he came, he was just in time for his dinner, and narrowly escaped encountering Betty in the transe.

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • A light was shining into the transe from the stair which went up at right angles from the end of it.

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • He then turned to the left into a long flagged passage or transe, passed the kitchen door on the one hand, and the double-leaved street door on the other; but, instead of going into the parlour, the door of which closed the transe, he stopped at the passage-window on the right, and there stood looking out.

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

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