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   Rapture , n. [L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See Rapid.]
   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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   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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   A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   Syn. -- Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.
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   Rapture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raptured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapturing.] To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic]
   Thomson.
   
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