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tranced, ppl. a. (trɑːnst, -æ-, poet. ˈtrɑːnsɪd, -æ-) [f. trance v.1 + -ed1.] In a trance; entranced. Also fig.
1605Shakes. Lear v. iii. 218 There I left him traunst. a1665Sir K. Digby Priv. Mem. (1827) 44 A tranced angel. 1808Scott Marm. vi. iv, Where oft Devotion's tranced glow Can such a glimpse of heaven bestow. 1820Keats Hyperion i. 72 A tranced summer-night. 1854Grace Greenwood Haps & Mishaps Tour Europe 62 One of his Madonnas so saintly beautiful in the tranced joy of her divine maternity. Hence trancedly |ˈtrɑːnsɪdlɪ, -æ-|, adv.
1830Tennyson Arab. Nts. xiii, Then stole I up, and trancedly Gazed on the Persian girl alone. 1855W. Morris in Mackail Life (1899) I. 59 The wren sings merrily, But the lark sings trancedly. 1893Nat. Observer 22 July 246/2 To commune trancedly with the woodland spirit. |