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Webster's 1828 DictionaryRAP'TURE, n. [L. raptus, rapio.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)n Merriam Webster's
Oxford Reference Dictionaryn. 1 a ecstatic delight, mental transport. b (in pl.) great pleasure or enthusiasm or the expression of it. 2 archaic the act of transporting a person from one place to another. Phrases and idioms: go into (or be in) raptures be enthusiastic; talk enthusiastically. Derivatives: rapturous adj. rapturously adv. rapturousness n. Etymology: obs. F rapture or med.L raptura (as RAPT) Webster's 1913 DictionaryRapture 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. Webster's 1913 DictionaryRapture 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. Collin's Cobuild DictionaryRapture is a feeling of extreme happiness or pleasure. (LITERARY) The film was shown to gasps of rapture at the Democratic Convention... = delight Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
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