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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped}, usually written {Rapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [OE. rapen; akin to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan. rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush, hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. {Rape} robbery, {Rapture}, {Raff}, v., {Ramp}, v.] 1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. --Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. 3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration. I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears. --Addison. Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope. 4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Law] {To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa to hurry and r[91]na plunder, fr. r[be]n plunder, E. ran.] To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. [bd][Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.[b8] --Chaucer. All they could rap and rend pilfer. --Hudibras. {To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath. A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Rapt \Rapt\ (r[acr]pt), imp. & p. p. of {Rap}, to snatch away. | |
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Rapt \Rapt\, a. 1. Snatched away; hurried away or along. Waters rapt with whirling away. --Spenser. 2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. [bd]The rapt musician.[b8] --Longfellow. 3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation. [bd]Rapt in secret studies.[b8] --Shak. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Rapt \Rapt\, n. [From F. rapt abduction, rape, L. raptus, fr. rapere to seize and carry off, to transport; or fr. E. rapt, a. See {Rapt}, a., and {Rapid}.] 1. An ecstasy; a trance. [Obs.] --Bp. Morton. 2. Rapidity. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Rapt \Rapt\, v. i. 1. To transport or ravish. [Obs.] --Drayton. 2. To carry away by force. [Obs.] --Daniel. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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RAPT ["An Interpreter for a Language for Describing Assemblies", R.J. Popplestone et al, Artif Intell 14:79-107 (1980)]. (1995-05-10) | |
