Obs. [a. Sp. trance, formerly tranze danger (see TRANCE sb.1), the original word in all three quots.] Danger, peril.
1588. Parke, trans. Mendoza’s Hist. China, 356. They were themselues in the same trance and perill [en el mismo tranze y peligro], and as nigh their death. Ibid., 378. A very good warning vnto all … to flie from putting themselues into the like trance.
1612. Shelton, Quix., I. viii. (1619), 58. This thy Knight, who … finds himselfe in this dangerous trance [en este riguroso trance].
