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Rap \Rap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rapped} (r[a^]pt), usually
written {Rapt}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rapping}.] [OE. rapen; akin
to LG. & D. rapen to snatch, G. raffen, Sw. rappa; cf. Dan.
rappe sig to make haste, and Icel. hrapa to fall, to rush,
hurry. The word has been confused with L. rapere to seize.
Cf. {Rape} robbery, {Rapture}, {Raff}, v., {Ramp}, v.]
1. To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.
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And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt
The whirring chariot. --Chapman.
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From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund
Bacon, to Redgrove. --Sir H.
Wotton.
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2. To hasten. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman.
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3. To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to
transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or
rapture; as, rapt into admiration.
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I'm rapt with joy to see my Marcia's tears.
--Addison.
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Rapt into future times, the bard begun. --Pope.
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4. To exchange; to truck. [Obs. & Low]
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5. To engage in a discussion, converse.
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6. (ca. 1985) to perform a type of rhythmic talking, often
with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by
some as a type of music; see {rap music}.
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{To rap and ren}, {To rap and rend}. [Perhaps fr. Icel. hrapa
to hurry and r[ae]na plunder, fr. r[=a]n plunder, E. ran.]
To seize and plunder; to snatch by violence. --Dryden.
"[Ye] waste all that ye may rape and renne." --Chaucer.
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All they could rap and rend and pilfer. --Hudibras.
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{To rap out}, to utter with sudden violence, as an oath.
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A judge who rapped out a great oath. --Addison.
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Rapt \Rapt\ (r[a^]pt),
imp. & p. p. of {Rap}, to snatch away.
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Rapt \Rapt\, a.
1. Snatched away; hurried away or along.
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Waters rapt with whirling away. --Spenser.
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2. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.;
enraptured. "The rapt musician." --Longfellow.
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3. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation.
"Rapt in secret studies." --Shak.
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Rapt \Rapt\, n. [From F. rapt abduction, rape, L. raptus, fr.
rapere to seize and carry off, to transport; or fr. E. rapt,
a. See {Rapt}, a., and {Rapid}.]
1. An ecstasy; a trance. [Obs.] --Bp. Morton.
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2. Rapidity. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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Rapt \Rapt\, v. t.
1. To transport or ravish. [Obs.] --Drayton.
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2. To carry away by force. [Obs.] --Daniel.
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