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rapt /ˈræpt/
(a.)全神貫注的,入迷的,出神的(vbl.)rap的過去式和過去分詞
Rap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rapped usually written Rapt; p. pr. & vb. n. Rapping.]
1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
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.]
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. & Low]
To rap and ren, To rap and rend. To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden. “[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne.”
All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras.
-- To rap out, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.
Rapt imp. & p. p. of Rap, to snatch away.
Rapt, a.
1. Snatched away; hurried away or along.
Waters rapt with whirling away. --Spenser.
2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. “The rapt musician.”
3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation. “Rapt in secret studies.”
Rapt, n.
1. An ecstasy; a trance. [Obs.]
2. Rapidity. [Obs.]
Rapt, v. t.
1. To transport or ravish. [Obs.]
2. To carry away by force. [Obs.]
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rapt
adj 1: deeply moved; "sat completely still, enraptured by the
music"; "listened with rapt admiration"; "rapt in
reverie" [syn: enraptured, captive]
2: wholly absorbed as in thought; "deep in thought"; "that
engrossed look or rapt delight"; "the book had her totally
engrossed"; "enwrapped in dreams"; "so intent on this
fantastic...narrative that she hardly stirred"- Walter de
la Mare; "rapt with wonder"; "wrapped in thought" [syn: absorbed,
engrossed, enwrapped, intent, wrapped]