rapture Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
    ecstasy; raptus; transport; exaltation.
    • listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
  2. noun a state of elated bliss
    ecstasy.

WordNet


Rap"ture noun
Etymology
L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See Rapid.
Definitions
  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.
Rap"ture transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Raptured ; present participle & verbal noun Rapturing
Definitions
  1. To transport with excitement; to enrapture. Poetic Thomson.

Webster 1913