rapt

1. 1

   Snatched, taken away; abducted.archaicnot-comparable

   • And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.
   • From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.
2. 2

   Lifted up into the air; transported into heaven.not-comparable

3. 3

   Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed; fascinated or engrossed.comparable

   • The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat.
   • 1851-2, George W. M. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds′s Miscellany, republished 1857; 2008, page 247, It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind.
4. 4

   Enthusiastic; ecstatic, elated, happy.comparable

   • He was rapt with his exam results.

syn. absorbed · bewitched · captivated · enchanted · engaged · engrossed · enthralled · entranced · fascinated · hypnotized · interested · mesmerized

ant. apathetic · uninterested · unconcerned

1. 1

   To transport or ravish.obsolete

   • The Bards with furie rapt, the British youth among, Unto the charming Harpe thy future honor song
2. 2

   To carry away by force.obsolete

   • 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, His only daughter had either been rapt away to the grave, or he was to hav

1. 1

   An ecstasy; a trance.obsolete

   • the soul then is in rapt
2. 2

   Rapidity.obsolete

   • […] 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