rapture

rapture
    n 1: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
         "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles
         Dickens [syn: {ecstasy}, {rapture}, {transport},
         {exaltation}, {raptus}]
    2: a state of elated bliss [syn: {ecstasy}, {rapture}]
    

Rapture \Rap"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raptured} (-t[-u]rd;
   135); p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapturing}.]
   To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic]
   --Thomson.
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Rapture \Rap"ture\ (r[a^]p"t[-u]r; 135), n. [L. rapere, raptum,
   to carry off by force. See {Rapid}.]
   1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with
      violence. [Obs.]
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            That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash
            With headlong rapture.                --Chapman.
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   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.
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            Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the
            hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion,
            and advances praise into rapture.     --Addison.
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            You grow correct that once with rapture writ.
                                                  --Pope.
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   3. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   Syn: Bliss; ecstasy; transport; delight; exultation.
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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