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‖ raptus|ˈræptəs| [L., vbl. n. f. rapĕre to seize: cf. rapt, rapture, etc.] 1. Path. A seizure. (Craig, 1848.) Chiefly in L. phrases, as raptus melancholicus, nervorum. 2. A state of rapture or excitement. Also, an instance of this.
1844Marg. Fuller Wom. 19th C. (1862) 106 How graceful she is in her tragic raptus the chorus shows. 1888Scott. Leader 17 Nov. 4 Did he not lash up the raptus over the extension of the franchise? 1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. xvi. 412 In the condition called raptus or ravishment by theologians, breathing and circulation are so depressed that it is a question among the doctors whether the soul be or be not temporarily dis⁓severed from the body. 1964L. Woolf Beginning Again i. 32 Beethoven, every now and again, used to have what his faithful disciple called ‘a raptus’, a kind of volcanic creative outburst... The raptus or inspiration is clearly only a rare and wonderful form of a well-known everyday mental process. 1977A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan's Écrits vi. 207 The subject had his first attack of anxious confusion with suicidal raptus. |