v. Also 8 inrapture. [f. EN-1 + RAPTURE.]

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  1.  trans. To throw into a rapture, inspire with overmastering poetic fervor. Only in passive.

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1743.  Francis, trans. Horace, Odes, IV. ii. II. 163. New Words He rolls enraptur’d down Impetuous through the Dithyrambic Strains.

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1827.  [see ENRAPTURED 1].

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  2.  To delight intensely.

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1740.  Dyer, Ruins Rome, 134. The brow We gain enraptur’d.

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1821.  Moore, Irish Mel., Poet. Wks. (1850), 200. Such eyes, As before me … enraptured I see.

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1866.  Geo. Eliot, F. Holt (1868), 12. She had not been enraptured when her son had written … that [etc.].

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Mod.  He quite enraptured his audience.

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