rapturen.[L. rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See Rapid.]1. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.()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.(Shak.)()v. t. To transport with excitement; to enrapture.(Thomson.)