trance

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TR'ANCE, noun tr'ans. [Latin transitus, a passing over; transeo, to pass over; trans and eo.] An ecstasy; a state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into celestial regions, or to be rapt into visions. My soul was ravish'd quite as in a trance While they made ready, he fell into a trance and saw heaven opened. Acts 10:10.
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