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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rapture \Rap"ture\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Raptured} (-t[-u]rd; 135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapturing}.] To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] --Thomson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rapture \Rap"ture\ (r[a^]p"t[-u]r; 135), noun [L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See {Rapid}.]
1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obs.]
That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. --Chapman.
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.
Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture. --Addison.
You grow correct that once with rapture writ. --Pope.
3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] --Shak.
Syn: Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rapture
noun
1: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: {ecstasy}, {transport}, {exaltation}, {raptus}]
2: a state of elated bliss [syn: {ecstasy}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "rapture": abandon, affection, affectionateness, amativeness, amorousness, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, craze, delectation, delight, delirium, demonstrativeness, dharana, dhyana, ecstasis, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, euphoria, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, fire and fury, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, gaiety, gladness, glee, goatishness, happiness, heaven, high spirits, horniness, hypnosis, hysteria, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, joyousness, lovelornness, lovesickness, madness, orgasm, orgy, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, passion, pleasure, rage, ravishment, rhapsody, romanticism, samadhi, sentimentality, seventh, seventh heaven, sexiness, sunshine, susceptibility, tearing passion, thrill, towering rage, trance, transport, unalloyed happiness, yoga trance
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