And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The
whirring chariot. --Chapman.
From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund
Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H.
Wotton.
2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to
transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or
rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
--Addison.
Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.
4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Law]
{To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa
to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.]
To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden.
``[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.'' --Chaucer.
All they could rap and rend pilfer. --Hudibras.
{To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.
Waters rapt with whirling away. --Spenser.
2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.;
enraptured. ``The rapt musician.'' --Longfellow.
3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.
``Rapt in secret studies.'' --Shak.
2. Rapidity. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
2. To carry away by force. [Obs.] --Daniel.