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Webster 1913 Edition

Rapt

Rapt

(răpt)
,
imp.
&
p.
p.
of
Rap
, to snatch away.

Rapt

,
Adj.
1.
Snatched away; hurried away or along.
Waters
rapt
with whirling away.
Spenser.
2.
Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured.
“The rapt musician.”
Longfellow.
3.
Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.
“Rapt in secret studies.”
Shak.

Rapt

,
Noun.
[From F.
rapt
abduction, rape, L.
raptus
, fr.
rapere
to seize and carry off, to transport; or fr. E.
rapt
, a. See
Rapt
,
Adj.
, and
Rapid
.]
1.
An ecstasy; a trance.
[Obs.]
Bp. Morton.
2.
Rapidity.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.

Rapt

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To transport or ravish.
[Obs.]
Drayton.
2.
To carry away by force.
[Obs.]
Daniel.

Webster 1828 Edition

Rapt

RAPT

,
pp.
[from rap.] Transported; ravished.

RAPT

,
Verb.
T.
To transport or ravish. [Not legitimate or in use.]

RAPT

, n.
1.
An ecstasy; a trance.
2.
Rapidity. [Not in use.]

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