Definition of "rapt"

And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.The spelling has been modernized.

, Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volumes (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843,

From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.

1626, Henry Wotton, letter to Nicholas Pey

It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.

1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds′s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247

Her expression grew more rapt; she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing: […] .

1906, Ford Madox Ford, The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court: Works of Ford Madox Ford, published 2011, unnumbered page

The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. Rapt, transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp.

1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons

1998, Derel Leebaert, “Present at the Creation”, in Derek Leebaert, editor, The Future of the Electronic Marketplace, page 24

I […] am rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.

1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, Act I, scene iv, page 1

Creatures who navigate long-distance migrations — including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes — draw his most rapt commentaries.

1996, James Richard Giles, Wanda H. Giles, American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series, page 139

Even in the most rapt accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher′s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure.

2010, Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work—and Why, John Wiley & Sons, US, page 121

One bloke I met in the pub was the owner of the local meatworks. He was rapt to have the Sudanese, and if 1600 more were coming – that was the rumour – well, he′d have been even more rapt.

2010, Caroline Overington, I Came to Say Goodbye, page 201

These are worthy aspects of the hunt to give some consideration to with the next generation, because market forces want us to get more rapt with ever more sophisticated gear and an algorithmic conquering of animal instinct.

2012, Greig Caigou, Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures, HarperCollins (New Zealand), unnumbered page

The Bards with furie rapt, the British youth among,Unto the charming Harpe thy future honor song

1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 6 p. 89

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.

1819-20, Washington Irving, The Spectre Bridegroom, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., reprinted in 1840, The Works of Washington Irving, Volume 1, page 256

Out-rushing from his denne rapts all away

1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson

the soul then is in rapt

1671, The Life Of The Mother S. Teresa

[…] like the great exemplary wheeles of heaven, we must observe two Circles: that while we are daily carried about, and whirled on by the swinge and rapt of the one, we may maintain a naturall and proper course, in the slow and sober wheele of the other.

1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica‎, 2nd edition, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Preface