entranced
adjUK /ɛnˈtɹɑːnst/ · US /ɛnˈtɹænst/
Etymology From entrance + -ed.
1
Placed in a trance.
- There sate a Spirit in the vault, In shape, in hue, in lineaments, like life, And by him couch’d, as if intranced, The hundred-headed Worm that never dies.1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
2
Held at attention, as if by magic.
- The entranced spectator was cut off from reality as long as the adventure lasted; it was as if he lived a dream yet believed he was awake.1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 37:
- Synonyms
- bedazzled, bewitched, fascinated, hypnotized, mesmerized, spellbound
- Derived terms
- entrancedly, unentranced