ppl. a. [f. TRANCE v.1 + -ED1.] In a trance; entranced. Also fig.

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1605.  Shaks., Lear, V. iii. 218. There I left him traunst.

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a. 1665.  Sir K. Digby, Priv. Mem. (1827), 44. A tranced angel.

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1808.  Scott, Marmion, VI. iv. Where oft Devotion’s tranced glow Can such a glimpse of heaven bestow.

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1820.  Keats, Hyperion, I. 72. A tranced summer-night.

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1854.  Grace Greenwood, Haps & Mishaps Tour Europe, 62. One of his Madonnas so saintly beautiful in the tranced joy of her divine maternity.

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  Hence Trancedly adv.

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1830.  Tennyson, Arab. Nights, xiii. Then stole I up, and trancedly Gazed on the Persian girl alone.

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1855.  W. Morris, in Mackail, Life (1809), I. 59. The wren sings merrily, But the lark sings trancedly.

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1893.  Nat. Observer, 22 July, 246/2. To commune trancedly with the woodland spirit.

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