enrapt

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ rapt.

Adjective

enrapt (comparative more enrapt, superlative most enrapt)

1. (poetic or archaic) fascinated, enraptured
   • c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], signatures L, verso – L2, recto:

     Come Hector, come, go back, / Thy wife hath dreamt, thy mother hath had viſions, / Caſſandra doth foreſee, and I my ſelfe, / Am like a prophet ſuddenly enrapt, / To tell thee that this day is ominous: / Therefore come back.

   • 1898, Cutcliffe Hyne, A Master of Fortune‎^[1]:

     The tune carried among the lanes and dwellings of the village, and naked feet pad-padded quickly up over dust and the grass; the audience distributed itself within and without the head-man's hut, and listened enrapt; and the head-man felt the glow of satisfaction that a London hostess feels when she has hired for money the most popular drawing-room entertainer of the day, and her guests condescend to enjoy, and not merely to exhibit themselves as blases.

   • 1904, Bliss Carman, The World's Best Poetry Volume IV.‎^[2]:

     Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the mean while, wast blending with my thought,-- Yea, with my life and life's own secret joy,-- Till the dilating soul, enrapt, transfused, Into the mighty vision passing, there, As in her natural form, swelled vast to Heaven!

   • 1918, Francis B. Pearson, The Vitalized School‎^[3]:

     She sits enrapt as Shakespeare turns the kaleidoscope of life for her, or stands enthralled by Victor Hugo's picture of the human soul.

Anagrams

• -pteran, Panter, Parten, arpent, entrap, panter, parent, trepan