Read full poem →Rapt into future times, the bard begun:
A virgin shall conceive, a virgin bear a son!
Dictionary Entry
An ecstasy; a trance.
In a Sentence
“The audience sat in rapt, completely absorbed by the singer's powerful voice.”
Origin
From Middle English rapt, past participle of rapen ‘to seize’, from Latin rapere ‘to seize, carry off’.
Common Phrases
attention rapt. raptexpression raptaudience raptcontemplation raptaway rapt
Poetry examples for “rapt”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Thinks he deserves, and thou deserv'st the prize!
Rapt with the thought, my fancy seeks the plains,
And turns me shepherd while I hear the strains.
Read full poem →Till Albion, as Hibernia, bless my throne!
I see! I see!--Then rapt she spoke no more.
God save King Tibbald! Grub Street alleys roar.
Read full poem →And all about us peal’d the nightingale,
Rapt in her song, and carcless of the snare.
Read full poem →So sang the gallant glorious chronicle ;
And, IJ all rapt in this, “ Come out,” he said, 50
“To the Abbey : there is Aunt Elizabeth
Read full poem →As much as his thin purse could bear.
As rapt-souled monks watch over the baking
Of the sacred wafer, and through the making
Read full poem →jas Shakespeare excellently describes his own genius? I believe not. The
enthusiasm of passions which Beaumont and Fletcher are so frequently rapt
into, and the vast variety of distinguished characters which they have so
Read full poem →So calm on journey that they seem at rest,
So rapt in prayer that half they dwell in heaven
Thankful for all withheld and all things given;
Read full poem →Troy had not yet been ten years' siege out stander,
When nymph NeÊra rapt thy looks, Scamander.
What, not Alpheus in strange lands to run,
Read full poem →Thou spok'st thy words so well with stammering sound.
Envy hath rapt thee, no fierce wars thou mov'dst;
Vain-babbling speech, and pleasant peace thou lov'dst.