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rapt (rapt)

adjective

  1. Now Rare carried away in body or spirit (to heaven, etc.)
  2. carried away with joy, love, etc.; enraptured
  3. completely absorbed or engrossed (in meditation, study, etc.)
  4. resulting from or showing rapture a rapt look

Etymology: L raptus, pp. of rapere, to snatch, seize: see rape

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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