Rapture /(răp"tū̇r; 135)/

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.

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.

   You grow correct that once with rapture writ.

3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.]

imp. & p. p. Raptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapturing

1. To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic]