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Webster 1913 Edition
Rapture
1.
A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
[Obs.]
That ’gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash
With headlong
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
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Raptured
(-tū̍rd; 135)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rapturing
.] To transport with excitement; to enrapture.
[Poetic]
Thomson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rapture
RAP'TURE
,Noun.
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.