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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RAP'TURE, n. [L. raptus, rapio.]
1. A seizing by violence. [Little used.]
2. Transport; ecstasy; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure.
Music when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion and advances praise into rapture.
3. Rapidity with violence; a hurrying along with velocity; as rolling with torrent rapture.
4. Enthusiasm; uncommon heat of imagination.
You grow correct, that once with rapture writ.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus]
2: a state of elated bliss [syn: ecstasy, rapture]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Latin raptus Date: 1594 1. an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion 2. a. a state or experience of being carried away by overwhelming emotion b. a mystical experience in which the spirit is exalted to a knowledge of divine things 3. often capitalized the final assumption of Christians into heaven during the end-time according to Christian theology Synonyms: see ecstasy • rapturous adjective • rapturously adverb • rapturousness noun II. transitive verb (raptured; rapturing) Date: 1637 enrapture

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 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 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Rapture 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

I. n. 1. Transport, ecstasy, ravishment, beatitude, beatification, bliss, great happiness, heavenly joy. 2. Delight, exultation, enthusiasm. II. v. n. Ravish, transport, enrapture.

Moby Thesaurus

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