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Rap"ture (răp"t&uuptack_;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.]
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That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash
With headlong rapture. Chapman.
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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.
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Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture. Addison.
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You grow correct that once with rapture writ. Pope.
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3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] Shak.
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Syn. -- Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.
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Rap"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raptured (-t&uuptack_;rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. Rapturing.] To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] Thomson.
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