n. & v.
--n.
1. a a sleeplike or half-conscious state without response to stimuli. b a hypnotic or cataleptic state.
2 such a state as entered into by a medium.
3 a state of extreme exaltation or rapture; ecstasy.
--v.tr. poet. ENTRANCE(2).
Derivatives:
trancelike adj.
Etymology: ME f. OF transe f. transir depart, fall into trance f. L transire: see TRANSIT