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rapture

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rapture  \Rap"ture\  (r[a^]p"t[-u]r;  135),  n.  [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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rapture  \Rap"ture\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Raptured}  (-t[-u]rd; 
  135);  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Rapturing}.] 
  To  transport  with  excitement;  to  enrapture.  [Poetic] 
  --Thomson. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rapture 
  n  :  a  state  of  being  carried  away  by  overwhelming  emotion: 
  "listening  to  sweet  music  in  a  perfect  rapture"-  Charles 
  Dickens  [syn:  {ecstasy},  {transport},  {exaltation}]




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