Sekirov Dictionary

rapt

/ˈɹæpt/

adjective 4
noun 2
verb 2
forms 7

adjective4

•
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.
•
Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy.
- He was rapt with his exam results.
Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.
•
(no longer used) Snatched, taken away; abducted.
- And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot. — 1611

noun2

•
(no longer used) An ecstasy; a trance.
- the soul then is in rapt — 1671
(no longer used) Rapidity.

verb2

•
(no longer used) To transport or ravish.
- The Bards with furie rapt, the British youth among, Unto the charming Harpe thy future honor song — 1612
•
(no longer used) To carry away by force.
- His only daughter had either been rapt away to the grave, or he was to have some wood-demon for a son-in-law, and, perchance, a troop of goblin grandchildren. — 1819

forms

rapted · rapting · rapts · more rapt · rapter · most rapt · raptest

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