rapture
    n 1: a state of being carried away 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]

Rapture \Rap"ture\ (r[a^]p"t[-u]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.]
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            That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash
            With headlong rapture.                --Chapman.
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   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.
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            Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the
            hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion,
            and advances praise into rapture.     --Addison.
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            You grow correct that once with rapture writ.
                                                  --Pope.
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   3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   Syn: Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.
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Rapture \Rap"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raptured (-t[-u]rd;
   135); p. pr. & vb. n. Rapturing.]
   To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic]
   --Thomson.
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