| 释义 |
enrapt, pple.|ɛnˈræpt|
[f. en-1 + rapt.]
‘Carried away’ by prophetic ecstasy; hence, absorbed in contemplation, enraptured.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. iii. 65, I myself Am like a Prophet suddenly enrapt. 1790A. Wilson Invocation Poet. Wks. (1846) 53 Enrapt with the prospect, the bard gazed around. 1805Wordsw. Prelude x. (1850) 289 On the fulgent spectacle..I gazed Enrapt.
¶ This sense is in some applications undistinguishable from the fig. sense of enwrapt (see enwrap v., and cf. Shakes. Twel. N. iv. iii. 3). Hence a frequent confusion between the two words. In the following passage Johnson regards enrapt as erroneously written for enwrapt:
c1730Pope, etc. Mart. Scriblerus (1742) 130 Nor hath he been so enrapt in these Studies as to neglect, etc. |