Rapture

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  • noun. The state of being transported by a lofty emotion; ecstasy.
  • noun. An expression of ecstatic feeling.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The transporting of a person from one place to another, especially to heaven, by supernatural means.
  • noun. An event in the eschatology of certain Christian groups in which believers in Christ will be taken up to heaven either prior to or at the Second Coming.
  • transitive verb. To enrapture.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To enrapture.
  • noun. A violent taking and carrying away; seizure; forcible removal.
  • noun. Violent transporting movement; a rapid carrying or going along; moving energy.
  • noun. A state of mental transport or exaltation; ecstasy.
  • noun. Ecstatic elevation of thought or feeling; lofty or soaring enthusiasm; exalted or absorbing earnestness.
  • noun. A manifestation of mental transport; an ecstatic utterance or action; an expression of exalted or passionate feeling of any kind; a rhapsody.
  • noun. An ecstasy of passionate excitement; a paroxysm or fit from excessive emotion.
  • noun. Synonyms Transport, bliss, exaltation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To transport with excitement; to enrapture.
  • noun. A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
  • noun. In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
  • noun. The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
  • noun. Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
  • noun. The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
  • verb. to experience great happiness or excitement
  • verb. to cause to experience great happiness or excitement
  • verb. to take part in the Rapture
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a state of elated bliss
  • noun. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
  • Word Usage
    "D15AV0W3D: @rapture, what was the map called? rapture: Was probably the most creative map I've ever seen in a Halo game."
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