• Rapt

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    Origin

    From Latin raptor ("robber"), from Latin rapere ("seize")

    Full definition of rapt

    Adjective

    rapt

    1. (uncomparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
      • ChapmanAnd through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
        The whirring chariot.
      • Sir H. WottonFrom Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.
    2. (uncomparable) Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
    3. (comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
    4. (comparable) Enthusiatic; ecstatic, elated, happy.He was rapt with his exam results.

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    Verb

    1. (obsolete) To transport or ravish.
    2. (obsolete) To carry away by force.

    Noun

    rapt

    (plural rapts)
    1. (obsolete) An ecstasy; a trance.
    2. (obsolete) rapidity

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