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Rapture

Rapture (rapture)
n.(r1913 webster dictionaryp"t***usl]r; 135)
Rap"ture
[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

Rapture (rapture)
v. t.
Rap"ture
  1. To transport with excitement] to enrapture.
    [Poetic] Thomson.












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