Category:Rapture

Rap"ture, n. Etym: [l. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See Rapid.]

1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash with headlong Rapture. Chapman.

2. The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's Self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme Joy or pleasure; ecstasy. Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great Conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into Rapture. Addison. You grow correct that once with rapture writ. Pope.

3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [obs.] Shak.

Syn. -- bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.

Rapture Rap"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapturing.]

Defn: to transport with excitement; to enrapture. [poetic] thomson.