1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard.Her expression grew more rapt she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing.
1906, Ford Madox Ford, The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court, Works of Ford Madox Ford, 2011, unnumbered page,.It was an enthusiasm of the most rapt and holy kind. Reynolds, The Necromancer, in Reynolds′s Miscellany, republished 1857 2008, The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat. ( comparable ) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed fascinated or engrossed.( not comparable ) Lifted up into the air transported into heaven.Chapman And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot.įrom Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove.( not comparable, archaic ) Snatched, taken away abducted.Rapt ( comparative more rapt, superlative most rapt) These are worthy aspects of the hunt to give some consideration to with the next generation, because market forces want us to get more RAPT with ever more sophisticated gear and an algorithmic conquering of animal instinct. * 2012, Greig Caigou, _Wild Horizons: More Great Hunting Adventures_, HarperCollins (New Zealand), unnumbered page, He was RAPT to have the Sudanese, and if 1600 more were coming – that was the rumour – well, he′d have been even more RAPT. One bloke I met in the pub was the owner of the local meatworks.
* 2010, Caroline Overington, _I Came to Say Goodbye_, page 201, * 2010, Michael Reichert, Richard Hawley, _Reaching Boys, Teaching Boys: Strategies that Work-and Why_, John Wiley & Sons, US, page 121,Įven in the most RAPT accounts of independent student work, there appears an appreciative acknowledgment of the teacher′s having determined just the right amount of room necessary to build autonomy without risking frustration and failure. Giles, _American Novelists Since World War II: Fifth Series_, page 139,Ĭreatures who navigate long-distance migrations - including the green turtles, wind birds, or great cranes - draw his most RAPT commentaries. I'm RAPT with joy to see my Marcia's tears. * (comparable) Enthusiatic ecstatic, elated, happy. * 1998, Derel Leebaert, _Present at the Creation_, Derek Leebaert (editor), _The Future of the Electronic Marketplace_, page 24, RAPT, transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp. The Rat never answered, if indeed he heard. * 1908, Kenneth Grahame, _The Wind in the Willows_ Her expression grew more RAPT she paused as if she had lost the thread of the words and then spoke again, gazing far out over the hall as jugglers do in performing feats of balancing. * 1906, Ford Madox Ford, _The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court_, _Works of Ford Madox Ford_, 2011, unnumbered page, It was an enthusiasm of the most RAPT and holy kind. Reynolds, _The Necromancer_, in _Reynolds′s Miscellany_, republished 1857 2008, page 247, _The children watched in RAPT attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat._ * (comparable) Very interested, involved in something, absorbed, transfixed fascinated or engrossed.
* (not comparable) Lifted up into the air transported into heaven. * (not comparable, archaic) Snatched, taken away abducted.Īnd through the Greeks and Ilians they RAPT / The whirring chariot.įrom Oxford I was RAPT by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove. RAPT (_comparative_ MORE RAPT, _superlative_ MOST RAPT)
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