enraptadj.
/ᵻnˈrapt/, /ɛnˈrapt/, U.S. /ᵻnˈræpt/, /ɛnˈræpt/ ‘Carried away’ by prophetic ecstasy; hence, absorbed in contemplation, enraptured.This sense is in some applications undistinguishable from the figurative sense of enwrapt (see enwrap v., and cf. Shakespeare Twelfth Night iv. iii. 3). Hence a frequent confusion between the two words. In the following passage Johnson regards enrapt as erroneously written for enwrapt:
1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 69 in A. Pope Wks. II Nor hath he been so enrapt in these Studies, as to neglect [etc.].
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the mind > emotion > excitement > inspiration > [adjective] > poetically or prophetically inspired
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective] > filled with poetic inspiration
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [adjective] > enraptured
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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. iii. 67 I my selfe, Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt . View more context for this quotation
1790 A. Wilson Poems 104 Enrapt with the prospect, the Bard gaz'd around.
1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude x. 289 On the fulgent spectacle..I gazed Enrapt.
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