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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin rapt?ra, future active participle of rapi? (“snatch, carry off”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æpt??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??apt??/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /???pt??/
• Rhymes: -æpt??(?)

Noun

rapture (countable and uncountable, plural raptures)

1. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
   • 2014, Paul Doyle, "Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian, 18 October 2014:

     Sunderland’s right-back, Santiago Vergini, inadvertently gave Southampton the lead by lashing the ball into his own net in the 12th minute, and that signalled the start of a barmy encounter that had home fans in raptures and Sunderland in tatters.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VII

     My heart filled with rapture then, and it fills now as it has each of the countless times I have recalled those dear words, as it shall fill always until death has claimed me. I may never see her again; she may not know how I love her--she may question, she may doubt; but always true and steady, and warm with the fires of love my heart beats for the girl who said that night: "I love you beyond all conception."

2. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
3. (obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
4. (obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
5. (obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
   • 1888 James Russell Lowell, Agassiz 6.1.21:

     With the rapture of great winds to blow / About earth's shaken coignes.

6. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

Related terms

• rapt

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “rapture”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Verb

rapture (third-person singular simple present raptures, present participle rapturing, simple past and past participle raptured)

1. (dated, transitive) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
   • 2012, The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit, page 138:

     She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.

2. (dated, intransitive) To experience great happiness or excitement.
3. (transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
   • 2001, Allan Appel, Club Revelation: A Novel, page 320:

     "If she's raptured," Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, "if that's what happened to her, then […] "

   • 2007, Leon L. Combs, A Search For Reality page 46

     These fiction books told the story of some church people who were raptured but focused on the people who were not raptured.

   • 2010, Gerald Mizejewski, Jerimiah Asher, Charting the Supernatural Judgements of Planet Earth (page 233)

     The third person raptured by God into heaven was Elijah […]

   • 2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie ?ISBN

     “Praise the Lord, he's been raptured.” Good grief. “I don't think so, Mrs. Farris. 'Course, I'm Episcopalian, and I'm pretty sure we don't get raptured. But, Baptists get raptured, don't they?”

4. (rare, intransitive) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
5. (uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
   • 1885, Edward Everett Hale, G.T.T.; or, The Wonderful Adventures of a Pullman, page 158:

     And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them.

   • 2003, Jessica Peers, Asparagus Dreams, page 75:

     Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.

   • 2003, Beverly Adam, Irish Magic, page 121:

     They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.

Anagrams

• parture

Latin

Participle

rapt?re

1. vocative masculine singular of rapt?rus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æpt/
• Rhymes: -æpt
• Homophones: rapped, wrapped, wrapt

Adjective

rapt (comparative more rapt, superlative most rapt)

1. (not comparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
   • 1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey

     From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.

2. (not comparable) Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
3. (comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.

   The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.

   • 1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds?s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247,

     It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.

   • 1906, Ford Madox Ford, The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court, Works of Ford Madox Ford, 2011, unnumbered page,

     Her expression grew more rapt; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing: […] .

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt, transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.

   • 1998, Derel Leebaert, Present at the Creation, Derek Leebaert (editor), The Future of the Electronic Marketplace, page 24,
4. (comparable) Enthusiatic; ecstatic, elated, happy.

   He was rapt with his exam results.

   • I […] am rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.

   • 1996, James Richard Giles, Wanda H. Giles, American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series, page 139,

     Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.

   • 2010, Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work—and Why, John Wiley & Sons, US, page 121,

     Even in the most rapt accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher?s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure.

   • 2010, Caroline Overington, I Came to Say Goodbye, page 201,

     One bloke I met in the pub was the owner of the local meatworks. He was rapt to have the Sudanese, and if 1600 more were coming – that was the rumour – well, he?d have been even more rapt.

   • 2012, Greig Caigou, Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures, HarperCollins (New Zealand), unnumbered page,

     These are worthy aspects of the hunt to give some consideration to with the next generation, because market forces want us to get more rapt with ever more sophisticated gear and an algorithmic conquering of animal instinct.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:rapt

Related terms

• rapture

Translations

Verb

rapt (third-person singular simple present rapts, present participle rapting, simple past and past participle rapted or rapt)

1. (obsolete) To transport or ravish.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 6 p. 89[1]:

     The Bards with furie rapt, the British youth among,

     Unto the charming Harpe thy future honor song

2. (obsolete) To carry away by force.
   • 1819-20, Washington Irving, The Spectre Bridegroom, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., reprinted in 1840, The Works of Washington Irving, Volume 1, page 256,

     His only daughter had either been rapt away to the grave, or he was to have some wood-demon for a son-in-law, and, perchance, a troop of goblin grandchildren.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Daniel to this entry?)

Noun

rapt (plural rapts)

1. (obsolete) An ecstasy; a trance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Morton to this entry?)

2. (obsolete) Rapidity.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, Preface,^[2]

     […] like the great exemplary wheeles of heaven, we must observe two Circles: that while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swinge and rapt of the one, we may maintain a naturall and proper course, in the slow and sober wheele of the other.

Anagrams

• TRAP, part, part., patr-, prat, rtPA, tarp, trap

Danish

Adjective

rapt

1. neuter singular of rap

Adverb

rapt

1. quickly, rapidly

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin raptus. Cf. ravir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?apt/

Noun

rapt m (plural rapts)

1. kidnapping, abduction

Synonyms

• enlèvement

Related terms

• ravir

Further reading

• “rapt” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• rapa, rapet

Verb

rapt

1. past participle of rape

Romanian

Etymology

From French rapt, from Latin raptus.

Noun

rapt n (plural rapturi)

1. kidnapping, abduction

Declension