Rapture definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary RAP'TURE, n. [L. raptus ... hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion and advances praise into rapture. 3. Rapidity with violence; a hurrying along with velocity; as rolling with torrent rapture. 4. Enthusiasm; uncommon heat of imagination. You grow correct, that once with rapture writ. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a state ... by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus] 2: a state of elated bliss [ ...
... eyes open, I leave to be examined. 2. Excessive joy; rapture; a degree of delight that arrests the whole mind; as ... during the fit. EC'STASY, v.t. To fill with rapture or enthusiasm. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a ... by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus] 2: a state of elated bliss [syn: ecstasy, rapture] 3: street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine [syn: Adam, ecstasy, XTC, go ... mood-enhancing and hallucinogenic properties — called also MDMA Synonyms: ecstasy, rapture, transport mean intense exaltation of mind and feelings. ecstasy ...
... to convey convicts to the place of their destination. 2. Rapture; ecstasy. The news of victory was received with transports of ... by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus] 5: a mechanism that transports magnetic tape ... also transport ship, transport vessel. 3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture. With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells ... ship, transport-vessel. 3. Convict (sentenced to banishment), felon. 4. Rapture, ravishment, beatitude, ecstasy, beatification, bliss, happiness, felicity. 5. Warmth, vehemence ... paradise, passion, portage, porterage, proscribe, provoke, quicken, rage, railway express, rapture, ravish, ravishment, relegate, remove, rhapsody, rusticate, send, send away, ...
... a woman to carnal connection; forcible violation of chastity. 2. Rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy; pleasing violence of the mind or ... from her husband. --Blackstone. 2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of delight; ecstasy. --Spencer. In whose sight all things ... English Synonyms n. 1. Rape, defloration, constupration, violation, defilement. 2. Rapture, ecstasy, transport, great delight, enravishment. 3. Abduction. Moby Thesaurus abandon ... pillaging, plunder, plundering, priapism, rage, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, rapture, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, razzia, reiving, rifling, sack, sacking, seducement, seduction ...
... use.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: feeling great rapture or delight [syn: ecstatic, enraptured, rapturous, rapt, rhapsodic] Merriam Webster ... been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. Rape robbery, Rapture, Raff, v., Ramp, v.] 1. To snatch away; to seize ... out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration. I'm rapt with joy to ...
... out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as rapt into admiration. I'm rapt with joy to ... been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. Rape robbery, Rapture, Raff, v., Ramp, v.] 1. To snatch away; to seize ... out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration. I'm rapt with joy to ...
... extreme violence; as the rage of a tempest. 4. Enthusiasm; rapture. Who brought green poesy to her perfect age, and made ... violent anger, furor. 2. Extreme eagerness, vehement desire. 3. Enthusiasm, rapture. 4. ( Colloq. ) Fashion, vogue, mode. II. v. n. 1. Rave ... the roof, ramble, ramp, rampage, rant, rant and rave, rape, rapture, rave, ravishment, riot, roar, roister, rollick, row, ruckus, ruin, rumpus ...
... by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus] 2: the location of a planet in ... perpendicular distance, praise, preferment, princeliness, prominence, promotion, purification, raise, raising, rapture, ravishment, rearing, rise, sainthood, sainting, sanctification, setting apart, seventh heaven ...
... Etymology: Middle English traunce, from Anglo-French transe death, coma, rapture, from transir to depart, die, from Latin transire to cross ... by a medium. 3 a state of extreme exaltation or rapture; ecstasy. --v.tr. poet. = ENTRANCE(2). Derivatives: trancelike adj. Etymology ... narcosis, narcotic stupor, narcotization, nod, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, rapture, ravish, reverie, samadhi, sedation, self-hypnosis, shock, sleeping sickness, sleepwalking ...
... Webster's 1828 Dictionary ENRAV'ISHMENT, n. Ecstasy of delight; rapture. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Enravishment En*rav"ish*ment, n. The state of being enravished or enraptured; ecstasy; rapture. --Glanvill. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Rapture, ecstasy, transport, ravishment.
... state, state of bliss, great felicity, supreme happiness, ecstasy, transport, rapture, transcendent delight, Paradise, Elysium. Foolish Dictionary A good place to ... pinnacle, piping times, pitch, point, pole, promised land, prosperity, raise, rapture, ravishment, reign of Saturn, ridge, rise, rising ground, rosy era ...
... been confused with L. rapere to seize. Cf. Rape robbery, Rapture, Raff, v., Ramp, v.] 1. To snatch away; to seize ... out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration. I'm rapt with joy to ...