Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - rapture
Rapture
rapture
n. 1 a ecstatic delight, mental transport. b (in pl.) great pleasure or enthusiasm or the expression of it. 2 archaic the act of transporting a person from one place to another. Phrases and idioms go into (or be in) raptures be enthusiastic; talk enthusiastically. Derivatives rapturous adj. rapturously adv. rapturousness n. Etymology: obs. F rapture or med.L raptura (as RAPT)
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I. noun Etymology: Latin raptus Date: 1594 an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion, 2. a state or experience of being carried away by overwhelming emotion, a mystical experience in which the spirit is exalted to a knowledge of divine things, the final assumption of Christians into heaven during the end-time according to Christian theology, see: ecstasy rapturous adjective rapturously adverb rapturousness noun II. transitive verb (~d; rapturing) Date: 1637 en~ ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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