单词 | raptus |
释义 | raptusn. 1. Medicine. A seizure; a sudden or acute attack, esp. of mental illness. Also with distinguishing scientific Latin word, as raptus melancholicus, raptus nervorum, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > fit of madness widden-dreamOE resea1300 ragec1330 lunacy1541 raving1549 fit1594 moon1607 ravening1607 lunesa1616 rapturea1616 widdrim1644 raptus1740 brain storm1890 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > fit or stroke taking1541 conceit1543 striking1599 stroke1599 fit1621 raptus1740 parlatic1758 seizure1779 shock1794 ictus1890 wingding1927 wing-dinger1933 mini-stroke1972 1740 T. Short Ess. Hist. Princ. Mineral Waters 205 A Raptus of the Blood to the Head should be abated by softening and relaxing the lower Extreams by bathing the Feet and Legs every Night in Warm Water. 1817 J. M. Good Physiol. Syst. Nosol. 336 (note) The proper Latin term [for cramp] perhaps is raptus nervorum; whence opisthotonia, or opisthotonus is ‘raptus supinus’. 1829 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 356 But raptus is upon the whole of too general a meaning to be employed on the present occasion, unless with the inconvenience of another term combined with it. 1847 H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. 255 The type of the psychopathies is very rarely permanent, but more frequently remittent (raptus). 1885 Brain 8 234 Sometimes this state of psychical malaise presents acute recrudescences, states of anguish (raptus melancholicus), with temptations to crime or suicide. 1907 Brain 30 182 Later chronic stupor with occasional raptus. In one attack of raptus tore out one of his testicles with his hand. 1933 B. Gadelius Human Mentality v. 118 It may be questioned whether the raptus melancholicus just described is more typical of the anxiety neuroses than of melancholia. 1969 Michigan Med. 68 895 (title) Raptus: a neglected psychophysiological phenomenon. 1999 R. J. Corsini Dict. Psychol. 476/2 Impulsive raptus, rare phrase for a sudden attack of agitation that may occur in catatonic schizophrenia. 2. A state of rapture or excitement. Also: an instance of this; a fit or paroxysm of strong emotion. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > [noun] > a state of excitement heydayc1590 furor1704 feveret1712 kippage1808 raptus1845 take-on1893 gale1894 excitedness1934 up1966 the mind > emotion > excitement > extravagant or rapturous excitement > [noun] woodnessc1000 excess1423 inebriation1526 madness1595 deliration1603 raptery1640 mania1689 intoxication1712 ebriety1751 delirium1757 nympholepsy1776 inebriety1786 orgiasm1840 raptus1845 ebriosity1854 slap-happiness1958 the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rapture or ecstasy > [noun] ravishment1477 exaltationa1513 ecstasy1526 enragement1596 rapture1598 trance1598 transportation1617 raptery1640 enravishment1656 transport1658 rapturousnessa1687 sublimation1816 raptus1845 1845 M. Fuller Woman in 19th Cent. 99 How graceful she is in her tragic raptus the chorus shows. 1888 Sc. Leader 17 Nov. 4 Did he not lash up the raptus over the extension of the franchise? 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience 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. 1964 L. 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. 1977 A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan Écrits vi. 207 The subject had his first attack of anxious confusion with suicidal raptus. 1993 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Misreadings 91 Frenzies of religious ecstasy, when swarms of priests hasten to part with their ‘merits’..in an impressive crescendo of tension and hysterical raptus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1740 |
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