Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rapture

Rapture (rap"tur; 135) , noun

[Latin rapere, raptum, to carry off by force. See Rapid.]

1.
A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence. [Obsolete]
That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. — Chapman
2.
The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
Music, when thus applied, raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions; it strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture. — Addison
You grow correct that once with rapture writ. — Pope
3.
A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare

Rapture (-turd; 135) , transitive verb

To transport with excitement; to enrapture. [Poetic] — Thomson