Definition of Raptured

1. Verb. (past of rapture) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Raptured

1. rapture [v] - See also: rapture

Lexicographical Neighbors of Raptured

rapscallions
rapt
raptly
raptness
raptnesses
raptor
raptores
raptorial
raptorial bird
raptorious
raptorlike
raptors
raptour
rapture of the deep
raptured (current term)
raptures
rapturing
rapturist
rapturists
rapturize
rapturized
rapturizes
rapturizing
rapturous
rapturously
rapturousness
rapturousnesses
raptus
raptus hemorrhagicus

Literary usage of Raptured

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"24 Oh, might I cleave, with raptured wing, the waste Of the wide air, then, where in splendor lie Thy ruins, would my sorrowing spirit haste, ..."

2. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"... with 20 11. in color after the design by "Puck." O. xxvi, 344p. g. $2.50. (O.) '10. Putnam. A10-2247 Quodlibet of raptured thoughts fugitive. ..."

3. Annotations Upon Popular Hymns by Charles Seymour Robinson (1893)
"O Zion ! lift thy raptured eye; The Jong-expected hour is nigh; The joys of nature rise again, The Prince of Salem comes to reign. ..."

4. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1855)
"... found of various magnitude. the cyst was raptured from external violence, and its contents poured into the peritoneal sac, where they were absorbed, ..."

5. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"Their nymphs like yours, their feast divine the same, The raptured foretaste of immortal fame. So sung the Goddess, while the sister train With joyful ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Merv thenceforward remained in the hands of Persia until 1787, when it was attacked and raptured by the emir of Bokhara. ..."

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