entranse

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ENTR'ANSE, verb transitive or i. [Latin transeo.] 1. To put in a transe; to withdraw the soul, and leave the body in a kind of dead sleep or insensibility; to make insensible to present objects. The verb is seldom used, but the participle, entransed, is common. 2. To put in an ecstasy; to ravish the soul with delight or wonder. And I so ravish'd with her heavenly note, I stood entransed, and had no room for thought.
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