RAPTURE

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~