Definition of "tranced" []

• Held as if in a trance; captivated. (adjective)

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• "Then Edgar relates that, while he was sitting over his father's body, a man came and closely embraced him, and, shouting as loudly as if he wished to burst heaven, threw himself on the body of Edgar's father, and told the most piteous tale about Lear and himself, and that while relating this the strings of life began to crack, but at this moment the trumpet sounded twice and Edgar left him "tranced" -- and this was Kent."
• "He himself had fallen into a kind of tranced felicity, in which these questions no longer had other than an ingenious interest."
• "It is not quite clear what it was; but it seems to have been a kind of tranced utterance, in which the speaker poured out an impassioned rhapsody by which his religious feeling received both expression and exaltation."