RAP'TURE, n. [L. 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.