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RAPTURED
Verb
raptured
simple past tense and past participle of rapture
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Rap"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapturing.]
Definition: To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] Thomson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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