Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
trance , trance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete See
trance .
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- noun Obsolete form of
trance .
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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
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Panuccio, yawning and stretching out his limbes, with unusuall groanes and respirations, such as (better) could bee hardly dissembled: seemed to wake as out of a traunce, and calling his friend Adriano, said.
The Decameron 2004
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Afterward, by the loving paines of Conradoes wife, as also her daughter Spina, Madam Beritola (being recovered from her passionate traunce, and her vitall spirits executing their Offices againe) fell once more to the embracing of her Sonne, kissing him infinite times, with teares and speeches of motherly kindnesse, he likewise expressing the same dutifull humanity to her.
The Decameron 2004
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Adelasia be sprent all with teares, was in an extasy or traunce.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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And hauing made an ende of her prayer, shee remained vnmoueable as if shee had bene in a traunce.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Whylest rapt with ioy resembling heauenly madnes, my soule was rauisht quite as in a traunce: and feeling thence no more her sorowes sadnesse, fed on the fulnesse of that chearefull glaunce.
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And being in the midest of all their brauery, sodenly eyther for want of matter, or of ryme, or hauing forgotten theyr former conceipt, they seeme to be so pained and trauelied in theyr remembrance, as it were a woman in childebirth or as that same Pythia, when the traunce came vpon her.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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But yond commeth Roister Doister nowe in a traunce.
Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530
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Pafquin in a traunce Schole of vertue The hoppe gardein Gardiner's laborynth Ovid's metamorpholis Demoftheme's orations The courtier Two or three of Seneca his tra -
Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England ... 1790
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Underestimating the Russians and the Chinese just because we can traunce a third world military like Iraq’s could be disastorous. cialis Says:
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