trance

present participle of trance

(countable) A dazed or unconscious condition.

(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance. / (transitive, rare) To create in or via a trance.

(obsolete outside Britain, dialectal, intransitive) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.

(obsolete outside Britain, dialectal) A tedious journey.

plural of trance

Held as if in a trance; captivated.

In, or inducing, a state of trance.

An automated state of consciousness; actually, the normal consciousness, based on the premise that people believe what they are told to be true as opposed to what they have themselves realized to be true.