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). trancelike adj.
[ ME f. OF transe f. transir depart, fall into trance f. L transire: see TRANSIT ]