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[rapt] Pronunciation Key
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[rapt] Pronunciation Key –adjective
| 1. | deeply engrossed or absorbed: a rapt listener. |
| 2. | transported with emotion; enraptured: rapt with joy. |
| 3. | showing or proceeding from rapture: a rapt smile. |
| 4. | carried off spiritually to another place, sphere of existence, etc. |
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME (ptp. of rapen to carry off, abduct, rape) < L raptus seized, carried off (ptp. of rapere), equiv. to rap- (see rape1) + -tus ptp. suffix]
] —Related forms
raptly, adverb
raptness, noun
—Synonyms 2. ecstatic, spellbound, bewitched.
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[rap] Pronunciation Key
[rap] Pronunciation Key –verb (used with object), rapped or rapt, rap·ping. Archaic.
| 1. | to carry off; transport. |
| 2. | to transport with rapture. |
| 3. | to seize for oneself; snatch. |
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| rap 2
(rāp) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. rapt or rapped (rāpt), rap·ping, raps Archaic
[Back-formation from rapt.] |
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(rāpt) Pronunciation Key
v. Past participle of rap2. adj.
[Middle English, carried away, from Latin raptus, past participle of rapere, to seize; see rep- in Indo-European roots.] rapt·ly adv. Word History: One might be surprised to learn that rapt, a word used in describing states of deep delight or absorption, has a relative with an entirely different emotive force—rape. Now most often used to mean "to force someone to submit to sexual acts," rape once had a much broader application, as it meant "to seize, carry off." In fact, it was often used in positive and nonviolent contexts. From the Middle English period, we have examples of its being used to mean "to carry off to heaven from earth," as in "the visions of seynt poul wan [when] he was rapt in to paradys." As this quotation shows, rapt started out as the past participle of rape. As time went on, rapt became restricted to mental or emotional states, while rape developed a new past participle, raped, and became limited to criminal or violent acts. |
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rapt
c.1400, "carried away" (in an ecstatic trance), from L. raptus, pp. of rapere "seize, carry off" (see rapid). Sense of "engrossed" first recorded 1509. As a pp. adj. in Eng., the back-formed verb rap "to affect with rapture" was common c.1600-1750. The fig. sense is from the notion of "carried up into Heaven (bodily or in a dream)," as in a saint's vision.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| rapt | |
adjective | |
| feeling great rapture or delight [syn: ecstatic] |
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RAPT
["An Interpreter for a Language for Describing Assemblies", R.J. Popplestone et al, Artif Intell 14:79-107 (1980)].
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Rapt
Rapt\ (r[a^]pt), imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
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Rapt\, a. 1. Snatched away; hurried away or along. Waters rapt with whirling away. --Spenser. 2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. "The rapt musician." --Longfellow. 3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation. "Rapt in secret studies." --Shak.
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Rapt\, n. [From F. rapt abduction, rape, L. raptus, fr. rapere to seize and carry off, to transport; or fr. E. rapt, a. See Rapt, a., and Rapid.]1. An ecstasy; a trance. [Obs.] --Bp. Morton. 2. Rapidity. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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Rapt
Rapt\, v. i. 1. To transport or ravish. [Obs.] --Drayton. 2. To carry away by force. [Obs.] --Daniel.
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