rapture : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rapture	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for rapture
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rapture n a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens Synonym(s): ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus a state of elated bliss Synonym(s): ecstasy, rapture
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rapture \Rap"ture\ (r[acr]p"t[usl]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.] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rapture \Rap"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raptured} (-t[usl]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapturing}.] To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] --Thomson.