rapt

Definition

Snatched, taken away; abducted.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin raptus, past participle of rapio (“to seize”).

Example Sentences

• "And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt / The whirring chariot."
• "From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Francis Bacon, to Redgrove."
• "The children watched in rapt attention as the magician produced object after object from his hat."

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