1. trans. To throw into a trance.
α. 1608. Shaks., Per., III. ii. 94. E iv. She hath not been entranc’st aboue fiue howers.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 303, ¶ 4. The Nine Days’ Astonishment, in which the Angels lay entranced … is a noble circumstance.
β. 1667. Milton, P. L., I. 301. He stood and call’d His Legions, Angel Forms, who lay intrans’t. Ibid., XI. 420. Adam … Sunk down, and all his Spirits became intranst.
† b. transf. Obs.
1686. N. Cox, Gentl. Recreat., III. 133. If you would restore any of these entranced [with drugged bait] Fowl to their former health.
2. To throw into a state of mind resembling a trance; to put ‘out of oneself’; to overpower with strong feeling, as delight, fear, etc.
α. 1596. Spenser, State Irel. (1633), 42 (J.). With delight whereof I was … intranced, and carried so farre from my selfe.
1621. Quarles, Div. Poems, Esther (1717), 16. So stand the Sea-men … Entraunch’d with what this man of God recited.
1634. Milton, Comus, 1005. Celestial Cupid … Holds his dear Psyche, sweet entranced.
1759. Mallet, Hermit, III. 521, Wks. I. 179 (R.). Entranc’d in wonder at th’ unfolding scene.
1820. Keats, St. Agnes, xxviii. So entranced, Porphyro gazed upon her empty dress.
1868. Helps, Realmah, vii. (1876), 158. Throughout that night, Realmah sat entranced in thought.
β. 1598. Marston, Pygmal., Sat. iv. 154. Fond Bryart … Intrance thy selfe in thy sweet extasie.
1743. J. Davidson, Æneid, 25. Intranced in fear and wonder.
1771. Mackenzie, Man Feel., xxxv. (1803), 69. He was too much intranced in thought, to observe her at all.
b. To carry away in or as in a trance (from, to).
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 118. When a man is so … entranced from himselfe, with Wealth, Ambition, and Vaine-glory, that [etc.]. Ibid., 176. That reuerend Pastor, (entranced to hell in his thoughts for the distresse of his people).
1877. Mrs. Oliphant, Makers Flor., i. 17. The Vita Nuova that entrances the young poet into its charmed circle.
Hence Entranced ppl. a. Entrancedly adv., in the manner of one entranced.
1686. [see 1 b].
1768. Beattie, Minstr., I. xxxiii. Sleep A vision brought to his entranced sight.
1837. Lytton, E. Maltravers, I. 82. Her entranced and silent lover.
1871. Macduff, Mem. Patmos, i. 12. The Evangelist … awaking from his entranced dream.
1873. Browning, Red Cott. Nt.-cap, 1610. So wrote entrancedly to confidant Monsieur L. M.
