enravishv.
/ɛnˈravɪʃ/ rare in modern use.
transitive. To transport with intense delight; to enrapture.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > transport with rapture or ecstasy [verb (transitive)]
ravishc1390
rap1509
extol1526
exalta1533
reave1556
rape1566
rapt?1577
enravish1596
trance1597
to carry out1599
ecstasy1631
translate1631
elevate1634
rapture1636
ecstatize1654
enrapture1740
ecstasiate1823
ecstasize1835
1596 E. Spenser Fowre Hymnes 5 What wonder then, if with such rage extreme Fraile men..so much enrauisht bee?
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. B7 Whose Muse is so inravish'd with the lookes, Which from your Mistresse ivorie browes doe fall.
1677 H. Hallywell Sacred Method 88 (T.) Which cannot but enravish every generous breast.
a1714 J. Sharp Serm. (1829) II. 458 We shall..spend the whole eternity..in loving God..in being enravished with all his wise contrivances.
Derivatives
enˈravished adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [adjective]
ravished1549
rapt1555
rapted1567
enchanted1594
ecstatical1600
tranced1608
raptured1638
corrept1659
enravished1662
ecstatic1664
rapturous1664
sublime1667
exalted1712
enraptured1757
ecstasied1787
blissed out1973
1662 H. More Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (new ed.) lxiii. 45 in Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) The divine Love and Beauty descending into their enravished Souls.
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