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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Entrance

En'trance, n.

noun

n. [Fr. entrant, Lat. intrans, p. pr. of entrer, intrare. See ENTER.]

Sense 1. The act of entering or going into; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.

Sense 2. Permission or power to enter; as, to give entrance to friends.

Where Diligence opens the door of the understanding, and Impartiality keeps it, Truth is sure to find an entrance, and a welcome too. South.

Sense 3. The door, gate, passage, or avenue, by which a place may be entered.

They said unto him, Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city. Judg. i. 24.

Sense 4. The act of beginning, or that with which the beginning is made; the commencement; initiation; as, a difficult entrance into business.

St. Augustine, in the entrance of one of his discourses, makes a kind of apology. Hakewill.

Sense 5. The causing to be entered, as a ship or goods at a custom-house, of a name upon a register; entering.

En-trănçe’, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. ENTRANCED (en-trănst’); p. pr. & vb. n. ENTRANCING.] [Prefix en and trance, q. v.] 1. To put into a trance; to withdraw consciousness or sensibility from; to make insensible to present objects. Him, still entranced and in a litter laid, They bore from field and to the bed conveyed. Dryden. 2. To put into an ecstasy; to ravish with delight or wonder; to enrapture. And I so ravished with her heavenly note, I stood entranced, and had no room for thought. Dryden.