Hypertext Webster Gateway: "transported"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Transported \Trans*port"ed\, a.
Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried
away with passion or pleasure; entranced. --
{Trans*port"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Trans*port"ed*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Transport \Trans*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transported}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Transporting}.] [F. transporter, L.
transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See {Port}
bearing, demeanor.]
1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to
convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
--Hakluyt.
2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a
criminal; to banish.
3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow,
complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or
ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
[They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of
passion. --Milton.
We shall then be transported with a nobler . . .
wonder. --South.
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