RAP'TURE, noun [Latin raptus, rapio.] 1. A seizing by violence. [Little used.] 2. Transport; ecstasy; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure. Music when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion and advances praise into rapture 3. Rapidity with violence; a hurrying along with velocity; as rolling with torrent rapture 4. Enthusiasm; uncommon heat of imagination. You grow correct, that once with rapture writ.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI